- Change in industry structure
The development of IT has enabled a certain unbundling of logistics activities (Stephens
Inc,2000; Häcki, 2001); this unbundling in turn has enabled some new players to appear,
sometimes referred as fourth party logistics7. However, like other business models that was
deemed to succeed with the development of the IT powered network organization, there
seems to be a strong resistance from incumbents. Altogether, IT in general did not really
revolutionize the logistics sector structure (Malone, Polzin).