摘要：Logistics capabilities have been demonstrated to be a critical source of competitive advantage. However, the lack of internal ability to streamline, integrate and communicate the logistics processes constitutes a barrier for successful logistics management. This study, which is based on the resource based view (RBV), aims to correlate information technology (IT) capability and organizational culture with the logistics capability in order to explain logistics performance and eventually firm performance achieved. Through the PLS (Partial Least Squares) method we found by empirically analyzing 80 international logistics firms located in Turkey that; (1) organizational culture affects logistics capability, (2) logistics capability has a positive effect on firms' logistics performance, (3) IT capability has a direct positive effect on logistics performance, (4) logistics capability of firms affects their performance and (5) logistics performance of firms affects their performance. Results indicate that building a logistics capability relies on the organizational culture. Yet, achieving logistics performance depends on the effects of IT capability and logistics capability simultaneously through their direct influences which enhance firm performance. In this regard, results of this study contribute theoretically to logistics literature as well as practically to the logistics industry.
