Logistics Services Sector and Economic Recession in Greece: Challenges and Opportunities

Logistics

Aidonis, Dimitrios¹  Tsolakis, Naoum²  Folinas, Dimitrios³ 

[1] Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.;Department of Engineering, School of Technology, Centre for International Manufacturing, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK;Department of Supply Chain Management and Logistics, Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, 60 100 Katerini, Greece

关键词: economic recession;    logistics services sector;    Greece;    third-party logistics (3PL);    logistics functional areas;    critical taxonomy;    semantic analysis;    text mining;    word co-occurrences;    questionnaire-based survey;   

DOI  :  10.3390/logistics2030016

学科分类：逻辑

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The recent economic recession in Greece has had a detrimental impact on all national business activities, with the logistics industry being one of the most affected sectors primarily due to the significant decrease in market demand for goods and services. In this regard, the aim of this research is to identify key challenges and prospects for the Greek logistics services industry stemming from the recent economic crisis era through a critical literature taxonomy, a semantic analysis of the reviewed articles, and a questionnaire-based survey involving 140 executives from the third-party logistics sector. In principal, the recent economic crisis is reported to have significantly affected logistics service providers, thus further imposing structural reforms in the industry. The reduction in operating profits of transport companies is noticeable with the onset of the economic crisis, specifically in 2016. Nevertheless, logistics executives are optimistic regarding the near future, provided that educated and informed strategic management decisions are made and inventive business practices are embraced.

【 授权许可】

CC BY