Title :
A Comparison Study of Logistics Industrial Concentration in China with Developed Countries
Author :
Jie, Xu ; Song-Dong, Ju ; Wei-Wei, Qin
Author_Institution :
Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing
Abstract :
The market concentration is an important factor that influences the enterprise´s behavior and market performance. The change of the market concentration reflects the changes of the market structure and competition states directly. With a new trend of the economic globalization, the logistics industry competition pattern in China faces adjustment greatly, and the study of the logistics industrial concentration is favorable to analyze the logistics market structure and competition states in our country objectively. This study calculates and analyzes the current situation of Chinese logistics industrial concentration firstly, and obtains the absolute and relative concentration indexes. Then through the comparison of that with American logistics industrial concentration, the article finds out that Chinese logistics industry belongs to the atom type market structure whose concentration degree is low, and needs improving industrial concentration through optimizing and combining badly. At last, this paper analyzes the factors that influences the logistics industrial in our country further, and puts forward the relevant suggestions of improving the logistics industrial concentration.
Keywords :
globalisation; logistics; marketing; organisational aspects; service industries; socio-economic effects; American logistics industrial concentration; China; developed countries; economic globalization; enterprise behavior; logistics industry competition pattern; logistics market structure; market concentration; Companies; Globalization; Industrial economics; Logistics; Manufacturing industries; Pattern analysis; Resource management; Absolute Concentration; Concentration; Logistics Enterprises; Logistics Industry; Relative Concentration;
Conference_Titel :
Service Systems and Service Management, 2007 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0885-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0885-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2007.4280279