Logistics Innovation

Abstract

Customers demand new services due to a dynamic and complex business environment. Innovation is a response to these challenges in various industries. Logistics service providers are under great pressure to be innovative due to their changing business environment and customer demands. Logistics innovation can be considered service innovations triggered by technological innovations. Service innovation should be examined with a service-dominant logic perspective by considering properties of services. Service-dominant logic as an evolving view in marketing highlights the importance of value co-creation, relationships, processes, and operant resources in the service exchanges of the organizations. In this chapter, important determinants related to logistics innovation are derived by a comprehensive literature review. Furthermore, a conceptual model of logistics innovation within a service-dominant logic perspective is established. This study is novel in that it focuses on the unexplored research of logistics innovation from the perspective of service-dominant logic by taking a holistic approach integrating technology, knowledge, and relationship orientation concepts with value co-creation.