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UNDERSTANDING AND MEASURING MACRO‐INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXITY OF LOGISTICS SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT
Author(s) -
Kinra Aseem,
Kotzab Herbert
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of business logistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2158-1592
pISSN - 0735-3766
DOI - 10.1002/j.2158-1592.2008.tb00082.x
Subject(s) - macro , analytic hierarchy process , business , macro level , hierarchy , process (computing) , simple (philosophy) , supply chain , computer science , process management , humanitarian logistics , risk analysis (engineering) , industrial organization , management science , operations research , economic system , economics , marketing , engineering , market economy , philosophy , epistemology , programming language , operating system
We explore the concept of macro‐institutional environmental complexity surrounding logistics systems. Macro‐institutional environmental complexity is formulated as the complexity posed by the diversity of macro‐institutions and infrastructural capabilities of external environments involved in global supply chain logistics operations. This concept is then translated into a simple Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model evaluating the macro‐institutional logistics systems environmental complexity of the four Nordic countries.