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Carsharing business models in Germany: characteristics, success and future prospects

2017

Carsharing provides an alternative to private car ownership by allowing car use temporarily on an on-demand basis. Operators provide carsharing services using different business models and ownership structures. We distinguish between cooperative, business-to-consumer (B2C) roundtrip and one-way, as well as peer-topeer (P2P) carsharing. This paper characterizes these different types of business models and compares their success in terms of diffusion using a comprehensive database of all 101 German carsharing providers in 2016. The key result holds that fleet size is significantly different across business models ranging from a few cars (cooperatives in small towns), to a few hundred (B2C rou…

An information system design product theory for the class of eSourcing requirements, delivery and completion management systems for eSourcing service…

2015

Climate change influences on aviation: A literature review

2020

While the aviation sector has long been referenced as contributing to the causes of climate change, the need for aviation to adapt to the consequences of climate change has not been as well researched or considered. The paper is a systematic quantitative literature review on climate change and aviation, which aims to explicate significant issues affecting aviation in a changing climate and to identify the aviation industry responses on climate change and adaptation. There are 46 references involved in the detailed assessment, selected according to variables such as methodology, paper outcomes and industry stakeholder. This emergent aviation and climate change adaptation literature could be …

A LOGISTICS PATTERN FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE TRANSPORTATION FROM ISLAND REGION: THE CASE OF SICILY

2014

The globalization of markets regards many sectors in the E.U. and among them also the fruit and vegetable in the face of growing and increasingly intense competition exerted by the products of countries with emerging economies. But, at the same time, the globalization can also lead to the opening of new potential markets for the products, when and where the transport system, more than other things, appears to be efficient and effective and makes possible to reach the target markets in the shortest time possible and at the lowest possible cost. It is therefore very useful to create a model that takes into account hepeculiarities of the different modes of transport between the different origi…

STANDARDS OF CUSTOMER SERVICE IN SUPPLY CHAIN - CASE STUDY

2017

The article is devoted to customer service in the supply chain. Dynamic changing market conditions and trends in supply chains force the improvement of customer service. The first part presents the definition of customer service and supply chain. The article presents selected standards of customer service on the example of the automotive industry. The essence of customer service manufacturer of automotive components is the need to fulfill the requirements of car manufacturers. The main factors of customer service in this company are such elements as; time, reliability, communication, convenience. The aim of this article is to present the elements of customer service for example automotive c…

Rola innowacji w kształtowaniu przepływów towarowych

2016

SYSTEMIC CONCEPT OF COMPANY’S LOGISTICS

2011

in all, currently operating enterprise in the market, both manufacturing and service sectors, there is a logistics system. The basic components of this system are the three main processes such as procurement, production and distribution. In this article we have presented and discussed in detail all of the above processes. In case of distribution were presented costs correlations incurred in connection with the distribution. When the production process is discussed methods for its improvement. And in the process of supply, emphasis is placed on the assessment of purchasers, the choice of location and price calculation.

Outlying location of logistics activities : the example of the Burgundy in France

2015

International audience; This paper contributes to the understanding of spatial location of logistics activities in an outlying region. A quantitative analysis in Burgundy (French region) underlines the important polarization of warehousing developed in a limited area during 1980–1990s intensified during 2000s. The companies that locate their warehouses in Burgundy have different strategies that could explain this outlying location. For example, the low cost of land, favorable terms of tax system and the presence of a labour pool with an important unemployed rate incentive could incentive some companies to locate their warehouses in an outlying region like the Burgundy.

Logistic procedures in the promotion of agritourism

2018

The article concerns logistic procedures in the promotion of agritourism services used by farmers engaged in agritourism and by agritourism associations, local authorities in municipalities and agricultural advisory centers. On the basis of the literature, various promotional instruments used by rural service providers and by these entities in the communication processes with the market were shown. Logistic aspects concerning planning and implementation of agritourism development were presented, mainly the role of agritourism information and promotional activities in these processes. Farmers providing agritouristic services most often use various forms of promotion. Among them, they use onl…

Zasoby logistyczne w kształtowaniu i rozwoju modelu biznesu

2021

Firms are constantly looking for the ways leading to the competitive advantage creation. In the process of building such an advantage, an important role is assigned to the so-called „resource-based theory of the firm”, which is related to the „resource-based strategic management”. Within the resource-based strategic management, the firm resources are of the key importance in the competitive advantage creation. An important place among the firm resources is occupied by logistics resources, related to logistics understood as a concept of the materials, goods and information flow management. The aim of the study is to identify the possibilities of the logistics resources use in shaping a busin…