Transport management in small and medium-sized enterprises in Brazil
Martins, Ricardo Silveira; Xavier, Wescley Silva; Souza Filho, Osmar Vieira de; Martins, Guilherme Silveira
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Resumo
The research reported in this paper, looks at the internal processes of Brazilian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) concerning the transport decision. SME represent over 99% of the formal enterprises in Brazil. The sample size was 400 industrial companies (with up to 100 employees) of Brazilian manufacturing sector. The results indicated that shippers do not use transportation as an opportunity to create competitive advantages. In addition, to get the needed services, Brazilian SMEs tend to buy transport services, readily available, without concerns for future transactions and more stringent and systematic criteria for the selection and evaluation of the service.
Ficha do documento
- Tipo
- Artigo científico
- Ano
- 2010
- Instituição
- FGV EAESP
- Fonte
- Repositório da FGV
- Idioma
- Inglês
- Acesso
- Acesso aberto
- Identificador
- oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/26944
- Temas
- Transportes
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