Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry: An Economic Geography PerspectiveFootnote*

*Research for this paper was supported by a National Science Foundation grant (BCS-0350697), “Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry: The Impacts of Inter-firm Relations, Technologies, and Globalization.” We thank the five anonymous reviewers for providing very useful suggestions for revision of earlier drafts of this article. We also want to acknowledge the contributions of the interview participants, and those who participated in our Logistics Provider Survey.

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