Industrial Engineering Journal

Industrial Engineering Journal ›› 2011, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (2): 6-10.

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Research on the Impact Factors of Supply Chain Strategy Transformation for  Foreign Tradebased Logistics Companies under Financial Crisis

      Supply chain under the financial crisis is discussed in this paper.For foreigntradebased logistics companies who make strategy transformation to respond to the crisis,three impact dimensions and ten impact factors are proposed.Four correlation models between the impact of financial crisis and strategy transformation are developed with hypothesis given.With the questionnaires for five cities of east China,an empirical research has been conducted to verify the results of the analysis and hypothetical propositions.Then,a correlation analysis figure for path coefficients is presented.The results show that both the changes of the external environment and the development statuses of the logistics companies have a positive effect on the strategic transformation of the supply chain.However,lack of cash and a largescale merger have negative effect.   

  1. 1.School of Management,Tianjin University,Tianjin 300072,China；2.School of Transportation Engineering,Tongji University,Shanghai 201804,China
  • Online:2011-04-30 Published:2011-04-30

Abstract: Supply chain under the financial crisis is discussed in this paper.For foreigntradebased logistics companies who make strategy transformation to respond to the crisis,three impact dimensions and ten impact factors are proposed.Four correlation models between the impact of financial crisis and strategy transformation are developed with hypothesis given.With the questionnaires for five cities of east China,an empirical research has been conducted to verify the results of the analysis and hypothetical propositions.Then,a correlation analysis figure for path coefficients is presented.The results show that both the changes of the external environment and the development statuses of the logistics companies have a positive effect on the strategic transformation of the supply chain.However,lack of cash and a largescale merger have negative effect.

Key words: financial crisis, foreign trade based logistics company, supply chain strategy transformation, correlation analysis