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PublicationThe influence of corporate social performance on employer attractiveness in the transport and logistics industry: Insights from German junior talentPurpose - Job markets in the transport and logistics industry are characterized by a scarcity of well-educated junior talent. Employer attractiveness is becoming more important in order to win the most talented junior staff. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how corporate social performance (CSP) profiles of logistics companies influence their attractiveness for job seekers. Design/methodology/approach - In a computerized laboratory experiment, the authors provided 95 students in their final year with job offer data that include general and CSP information about the company, and the job seeker's potential salary. The authors manipulated how the CSP information was presented and monitored the information accessed during job seekers' decision-making processes. The authors investigated how information presentation affected choices. Findings - The vast majority of talent acquires CSP information in the pre-decision phase of the judgment, compares this information across companies, and trades off this information with the conditions of employment. The authors find that the ease of comparability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information, expressed by meaningful indicators of CSP, increased preference for high CSP. Research limitations/implications - The study enriches existing studies of voluntary disclosure, which argue that voluntary disclosing sustainability-related information can be a tool of impression management. Practical implications - Companies with a compelling CSP should push for a broadly accepted methodology to benchmark CSP within industry-specific sectors, such as logistics services. Social implications - Potential employees demand that companies should consider their social impact on individuals and society as a whole. To remain attractive for mployees companies in International Journal of Physical transport and logistics industry have to cope with a broader scope of expectations.Type: journal articleJournal: International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics ManagementVolume: 45Issue: 5
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PublicationOrganization of Multilateral LTL AlliancesIn the less-than-truckload (LTL) market, alliances of smaller logistics service providers (LSP) successfully compete with large, integrated logistics corporations. However, such alliances are often seen as an inferior governance mode in terms of establishing and operating cost-efficient production structures. Because little is known about the organization of such multilateral LTL alliances, this paper conceptualizes and explores their cooperative organization and offers tentative explanations for their specific organizational design. Two in-depth cases have made it possible to analyze the specific organizational arrangements of two successful but contrasting German LTL alliances. The findings shed light on LTL alliance design alternatives and their effectiveness conditions and can serve as a guideline for alliance evaluation and design in the LTL business.Type: journal articleJournal: International Journal of Logistics: Research and ApplicationsVolume: 15Issue: 3
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PublicationPush- vs. Pull-Concepts in Logistics ChainsThe widespread terms "push" and "pull" are commonly used to characterise particular concepts ofsysem configuration and coordination. However, many publications present push and pull concepts in a confusing way. As there is no common sense of what these terms really mean and how they should be used, it is difficult to avoid inconsistency in the scientific discussion. The aim of the paper is to develop a simple framework in order to classify the alternative kinds of unterstanding of push- and pull-concepts in logistics or supply chains. This framework helps to define the conceptual basis of push and pull in the scientific community in an advanced way.Type: conference paper
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PublicationSwitchpoints for the Future of Logistics : a studyUniversity of St. Gallen's Chair of Logistics Management and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants conducted this study in order to identify and assess switchpoints that will shape the future of the logistics industry. Rather than making projections focused on a fixed point in time, the authors instead aimed to identify the most unpredictable developments that could impact logistics. Consequently, the topics for discussion range from fairly specific near-future developments to more exploratory "blue-sky" topics. Throughout their highly interesting discussions with respondents and experts, the authors encountered a wide range of uncommon and unexpected, but not at all unlikely projections for the future.Type: book
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PublicationSustainable Supply Chain Management : Practical Ideas for Moving Towards Best Practice(Springer, 2011)