Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth

by Yossi Sheffi

Book Overview

How logistics clusters can create jobs while providing companies with competitive advantage.

Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of the world's maritime containers and half the world's annual supply of crude oil? Which jobs can replace lost manufacturing jobs in advanced economies?

Some of the answers to these questions are rooted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262526794
• ISBN13: 9780262526791
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher