Abstract
The growth of third-party logistics in the past three decades coincides with the unprecedented globalization of supply chains. When firms conduct international business, they often collaborate with third-party logistics providers in foreign markets to reduce the risks of investing in logistics assets. We found that as an emerging value-added service, third-party purchasing has been offered by third-party logistics providers more frequently than before. In this case study, based on the interests in third-party purchasing, we provide an insight into the research method we used to explore the relationship between asset specificity, uncertainty, frequency, transaction size, and third-party purchasing services provided by third-party purchasing providers as the value-added service, and how this service affects their providers and users.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781526495006 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | SAGE Research Methods. Cases |
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| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Keywords
- third parties
- logistics
- provider
- asset specificity
- structural models
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Shi, Y., & Xie, C. (2019). Third-party purchase: an empirical case study of third-party providers in China using structure equation modeling. (SAGE Research Methods. Cases). London: SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526495006