Logistics Company Clustering And Evaluation Index System Of Sustainable Development: An Empirical Study

As the chief assistant of logistics industry, logistics companies have played a booster role ofthe development of national economics. Nevertheless, when facing with the shock of US mortgagecrisis, it is very difficult for the logistics companies’ sustainable development because of the smallscale, low management efficiency, single business function, weak ability of resisting risk. As animportant and innovative model of organizing production, industrial cluster boasts such strongpoints as resisting risk, and governing industrial cluster for the inner firms’ sustainabledevelopment. However, few existing literatures about the studies on the issues of the developmentof logistics company&its evaluation index system of logistics companies’ sustainabledevelopment can be found. Thus, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to study them.This paper analyzes the evaluation index system of logistics companies’ sustainabledevelopment from three perspectives. Firstly, it expounds background&significance of theresearch, reviews and summarizes the current research status of the logistics cluster, industrialcluster’s sustainable development to hunt the researching starting point and innovation point. Then,On the basis of outline of the concept, characteristic, formation and development mechanisms oflogistics industry cluster, and the concept of sustainable development, the connotation andobjective of industrial cluster’s sustainable development, this paper further to discuss the necessityand feasibility of logistics enterprises clustering. Lastly, basing on the previous studies, interviewand survey, we construct the evaluation index system of logistics companies’ sustainabledevelopment from the perspective of support condition, development status and compatibility. Andwe also built the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model with the method of fuzzy comprehensiveevaluation to research empirically to verify the scientificness and practicability of evaluation indexsystem as an example of some logistics company of Ningbo City.From the view point of theory and reality, this paper brings forth the evaluation index systemof logistics companies’ sustainable development, we hope this can provide certain decision-makingreference for management sector of logistics park to evaluate logistics company’s sustainabledevelopment and give policy support. We also hope this can give some guidance for the innercompany of logistics company cluster to further upgrade the ability of sustainable development.