Electronic Commerce Platform, Logistics and Local Economic Development
Subtitle: A Case Study of Global Innovation Center in Qingdao City
By: Xuzheng Wang
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.?]
Language: eng
Description: The current Chinese electronic-commerce industry has developed into a highly specialized stage, and logistics is the most significant link of the e-commerce supply chain. Therefore a modern industrial aggregate of electronic-commerce and logistics enterprises can utilize the cluster competitive advantage to meet the service demand of enterprises. This thesis uses a case of Global Innovation Center in Qingdao, a medium size city in eastern China, to argue that emerging Chinese electronic-commerce and logistics industrial cluster plays an important role in terms of fostering small/medium-sized enterprises and promoting regional economic growth. The hypothesis is that the interaction of modern logistics and electronic-commerce platform will facilitate the industrial upgrading of regional specialized industries and ultimately reflected in the growth of local economics.
Notes: Department: Urban Planning.

Thesis (M.S.)--Columbia University, 2015.