EC The approach offers important explanations on industry dynamics and gives useful policy and strategy prescriptions. If defined by the product, it amounts to an indistinct number of industries Gort and Klepper Utterback and Suarez Klepper 1996. major part of the industry to exploit scale economies Fernandez et al. few alternative products might temporarily survive [...]

Lessthantruckload LTL trucking companies provide consolidated transportation whereby several customers are served simultaneously by the same truck, and shipments need to be consolidated at terminals to build economical loads. Intelligent transportation system technologies offer the possibility of controlling the operations in real time. Numerical experiments are constructed to study the characteristics of the LTL trucking [...]

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Finally, an international comparison hints that institutional constraints are able to explain differences in the evolution of vertical integration across countries.. Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Abstract This work studies the organization of lessthantruckload trucking from contractual point of view. [...]

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