Abstracts and keywords; Guest editorial; Understanding buyer information acquisition for the purchase of logistics services; Internal relationship marketing: a key to enhanced supply chain relationships; Shipper-carrier partnership issues, rankings and satisfaction; Effective logistics outsourcing in New Zealand; The electronic supply chain
Summary
While outsourcing has been a factor in the logistics industry for centuries, inrecent years there has been a dramatic growth in the contract or ''third party''logistics industry. As provider firms have gained efficiencies andsophistication and increased their service offerings, an increasing number offirms have entered into strategic alliances or partnerships with one or morelogistics service companies
