%0 Journal Article
%T Determinants of scale efficiency in the Brazilian third-party logistics industry from 2001 to 2009
%A Wanke
%A Peter F.
%J BAR. Brazilian Administration Review
%D 2012
%I ANPAD - Associa??o Nacional de P¨®s-Gradua??o e Pesquisa em Administra??o
%R 10.1590/S1807-76922012000100005
%X this article investigates the brazilian third-party logistics (3pl) sector which, increasingly competitive, offers clients a wide variety of services/information technologies in the quest to bolster efficiency. the main research objective is to determine which variables significantly impact 3pls scale efficiency by applying two-stage dea (data envelopment analysis). based on an unbalanced panel model, data from the annual study published by revista tecnolog¨ªstica (years 2001-2009) were analyzed. results corroborate evidence in the literature that coordination mechanisms in the supply chain, supported by the availability of real time information and inventory synchronization, favor a more rational allocation of resources (inputs) to client demands (outputs).
%K dea
%K third-party logistics
%K scale efficiency
%K brazil.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1807-76922012000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en