| Article ID: | iaor19992237 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 34E |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 25 |
| End Page Number: | 37 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1998 |
| Journal: | Transportation Research. Part E, Logistics and Transportation Review |
| Authors: | Drge Cornelia, Germain Richard |
| Keywords: | transportation: general |
The design of logistics organizations is examined on several dimensions: (1) the existence of a written mission statement and plan; (2) the number of layers and the span of control; (3) specialization in eight areas; (4) decentralization in eight specific areas; and (5) three types of integrative efforts across departments. (6) For each of these dimensions, we examine whether firm size, production technology routineness and demand uncertainty have any impact on the organization of logistics. In addition, we examine a variable rarely studied in the logistics literature: senior logistics executive tenure.