TITLE:
Study on the Business Mode Innovation of Firms in Logistics Industry: A Case Study
AUTHORS:
Lan Wang
KEYWORDS:
Business Mode, Service Provider, Logistics Industry, Value Creation
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.6 No.9,
September
28,
2015
ABSTRACT: In the globalization era,
alliance and partner-like relationship has continued to become more and more
popular among academic scholars and practical managers. The service sector
plays an increasingly important role in economic development. The emergence,
development and mature of productive service industry reflect the deepening of
modern economic industry labor division and the complication of industrial construction,
as well as the dynamic features of resource flow, value flow and knowledge flow
across industries. This article elaborates elements of the business model innovation
though case analysis. By analyzing macro-environment and regional environment
of logistics industry development, this article elaborates how logistics firms
make innovation to create new business model
and summarizes three typical business models “product supplier, value-added
service supplier and supply chain service supplier”, which show the upgrading
route of making profit from the economy scale to integrated service.