A Model for Logistics Management in a Post-Soviet Central Asian Transitional Economy

Abstract

The research presented explores the logistics management of European and North American manufacturing companies operating in the unique environment of the post‐Soviet Central Asian transitional economy of Kazakhstan. Combining three alternating phases of quantitative and qualitative analysis, the research identifies the challenges logistics managers face in their efforts to distribute their companies' products into and within Kazakhstan. Then, using cross‐case analysis on a series of eleven case studies of European and North American manufacturing companies operating in Kazakhstan, the article concludes with a grounded theoretical model of logistics management for European and North American companies in Kazakhstan. The model highlights the unexpectedly divergent paths taken by companies from two different industry categories.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management Applications Within a Global Context: An Overview

“…To illustrate, the inclusion of the additional term "global" or "international" in the search resulted in less than one-third of our sample (2,266 records). Studies that would have been overlooked with this approach included Price's (2006) model for logistics management in a post-soviet central Asian transitional economy, van Bodegraven's (2001) overview of the state of logistics in Cuba, and Zhu and Sarkis's (2004) investigation on green supply chain management practices in Chinese manufacturing firms. This step of the process was conducted by an international graduate student majoring in Supply Chain Management at a university in the Midwestern U.S., and it resulted in a total of 809 articles.…”

“…A total of 17 manuscripts were published in the Journal of Business Logistics (JBL). Articles within this subset covered logistics practices in various countries, such as Cuba (Van Bodegraven 2001) and Kazakhstan (Price 2006), and the integration of logistics and marketing (Ellinger, Daugherty, and Keller 2000;Mollenkopf, Gibson, and Ozanne 2000). Noteworthy are the special issues on European L&SCM research (Gammelgaard 2006(Gammelgaard , 2008 and the international logistics section of the annotated bibliography covering L&SCM-related dissertations (Stock and Broadus 2006).…”

“…Other countries or regions investigated included the Arctic (Somanathan, Flynn, and Szymanski 2007), Argentina (Carranza, Maltz, and Antun 2002), Austria (Madlener and Bachhiesl 2007), Barbados (Ramcharan and Dey 2005), Botswana (Msimangira 2003), Bulgaria (Dimitrov 2005), Chile (Singer and Donoso 2007), Cuba (Van Bodegraven, 2001), Denmark (Christiansen, Rohde, and Hald. 2003), Dubai (Jacobs and Hall 2007), Estonia (Elenurm 2007), Finland (Kaynak and Eronen 2003), France (Guffond and Leconte 2000), Ghana and Guatemala (Bossert, Bowser, and Amenyah 2007), Greece (Kotsifaki et al 2007), Hungary (Demeter, Gelei, and Jenei 2006), Ireland (Huber and Sweeney 2007), Kazakhstan (Price 2006 (Bhutta, Rana, and Asad 2007), Panama (Vasquez 2003), Portugal (Barros 2003), Russia (Toppinen et al 2007), Saudi Arabia (Falah, Zairi, and Ahmed 2003), Sudan (Beamon and Kotleba 2006), Sweden (Olhager and Selldin 2004), Thailand (Boon-itt and Paul 2006), Trinidad and Tobago (Chowdary 2005), the United Arab Emirates , and Uganda (Kimbowa 2000). Some studies also compared countries or regions in terms of their L&SCM practices.…”

Assessing the National Logistics System of Vietnam

“…The availability and quality of infrastructure is one of the key components in determining the logistics environment of a country (Price, 2006). In general, it can be observed that in terms of both infrastructure and services, each individual mode of transport in Vietnam suffers from limited capacity and capability.…”

Contrasting Contexts for Entrepreneurship: Capitalism by Kyrgyz Decree Compared to Gradual Transition in Uzbekistan

“…In 1991, at a meeting in Almaty -the capital of Kazakhstan at the timeall five ex-Soviet countries of Central Asia joined the Community of Integrated States (CIS), which in 1993 came to include all of the formerly Soviet republics with the exception of the three Baltic states, namely Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. O'Driscoll, Holmes and Kirkpatrick (2001) described Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as "repressed" relative to Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. What has been published is largely focused on single country studies, for example, Azerbaijan (Rustamov, 2009), Kazakhstan (Dana, 1997;Price, 2006), the Kyrgyz Republic (Dana, 2000), and Turkmenistan (Miller, 2009). Comparative studies are few (e.g., KaDownloaded by [Selcuk Universitesi] at 15:11 20 December 2014 zakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic: Luthans and Ibraveva, 2006).…”