Track: Supply Chain

Abstract

As a strategy for achieving regional competitiveness, the interest in the cluster approach has become relevant. Organizations in similar processes industries are creating synergies to access for more sophisticated services and customers increasing competitiveness and regional prosperity.

The purpose of this research is to identify the influence of agglomeration and the readiness to create synergies in some of logistics activities such as transportation services to become more competitive. The Northeastern region in Mexico, which is very active on international trade operations, have a critical mass of transportation services. The data was gathered from transportation firms’ executives and secondary data sources. The first part of the research is a comparison of the evolution in different regions where these groups of firms have been stablished and their impact in competitiveness according to the occupied personnel, wages and total investment.

On the second part, the multivariate linear regression technique was applied, to test the impact of the agglomeration and synergies in the specified region to affect competitiveness.

As a result, the statistical significance of geographical allocation of the agglomeration and their intent to create synergies was display to contrast the hypothesis associated to the capabilities of the transportation logistics firms to become a cluster in the selected region.