Abstract:

Logistics plays a vital role in ensuring the competitiveness of countries in the international arena. The Logistics Performance Index, which reflects countries' global competitiveness, shows a country's efficiency in trade. Moreover, the Logistics Performance Index determines the countries' on-the-ground efficiency of trade supply chains or logistics services. This study aims to examine the effects of the Logistics Performance Index and its sub-dimensions on the logistics performance of logistics companies from a strategic point of view. The data related to the study is gathered from the World Bank database and the International Association of Forwarding and Logistics Service Providers sectoral databank. The robustness of the underlying data is related to individual logistics firms' factors. Variance-based structural equation modelling with regression analyses is used for measurements. Contrary to the joint logistics and supply chain literature, the results show that infrastructure and tracking sub-dimensions of the Logistics Performance Index negatively relate to firms' logistics performance in Turkey.

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