THE ROLE OF CO-OPERATION IN CREATION OF INNOVATION IN THE TSL INDUSTRY

1 PRZYBYLSKA Edyta
Institution:
1 Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Department of Organization and Management, Poland, eprzybylska@polsl.pl
Conference:
7th Carpathian Logistics Congress, ALEXANDRA WELLNESS HOTEL, Liptovsky Jan, Slovakia, EU, June 28th - 30th 2017
Proceedings:
Proceedings 7th Carpathian Logistics Congress
Pages:
301-305
ISBN:
978-80-87294-74-1
ISSN:
2694-9318
Published:
30th November 2017
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science.
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473 views / 184 downloads
Abstract

Business co-operation is one of the ways in which companies perceive opportunities to improve their performance in reaching targets. One of them is the desire to increase the level of innovation of the co-operating entities, resulting in the creation and implementation of new product, process, organizational and marketing solutions. This issue also applies to companies providing a broad spectrum of logistics services, representing the TSL (transport-shipping-logistics) industry. These entities, despite their significant and continuous development in recent years, are still often characterized by a low level of innovation. Through acting on the market, they engage with a wide range of other entities in various types of activities that can be characterized by loose or permanent and formalized relationships. However, in analyses conducted up to date, little attention is paid to the area of co-operation between these companies and other entities while engaging in some innovative activity. Hence, the purpose of this article is to take a preliminary look at this issue and to show, on the basis of available data, the degree of co-operation between TSL enterprises in the area of innovative activity.

Keywords: co-operation, innovation, TSL industry

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