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| | * Birla, Madan. ''FedEx Delivers: How the World's Leading Shipping Company Keeps Innovating and Outperforming the Competition'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/FedEx-Delivers-Innovating-Outperforming-Competition/dp/0471715794/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250028432&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search] | | * Birla, Madan. ''FedEx Delivers: How the World's Leading Shipping Company Keeps Innovating and Outperforming the Competition'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/FedEx-Delivers-Innovating-Outperforming-Competition/dp/0471715794/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250028432&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search] |
| | * Frock, Roger. ''Changing How the World Does Business: Fedex's Incredible Journey to Success - The Inside Story'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Changing-How-World-Does-Business/dp/1576754138/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250028432&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search] | | * Frock, Roger. ''Changing How the World Does Business: Fedex's Incredible Journey to Success - The Inside Story'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Changing-How-World-Does-Business/dp/1576754138/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250028432&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search] |
| − | * Pettus, Michael L. "The Resource-Based View as a Developmental Growth Process: Evidence from the Deregulated Trucking Industry," ''The Academy of Management Journal'', Vol. 44, No. 4 (Aug., 2001), pp. 878-896 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069420 in JSTOR] | + | * Pettus, Michael L. "The Resource-Based View as a Developmental Growth Process: Evidence from the Deregulated Trucking Industry," ''The Academy of Management Journal'', Vol. 44, No. 4 (Aug., 2001), pp. 878–896 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069420 in JSTOR] |
| − | * Zingales, Luigi. "Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest? Exit and Financing in the Trucking Industry," ''The Journal of Finance,'' Vol. 53, No. 3 (Jun., 1998), pp. 905-938 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/117382 in JSTOR] | + | * Zingales, Luigi. "Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest? Exit and Financing in the Trucking Industry," ''The Journal of Finance,'' Vol. 53, No. 3 (Jun., 1998), pp. 905–938 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/117382 in JSTOR] |
| | * Bureau of Labor Statistics. ''Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09: Truck Drivers and Driver/Sales Workers'' (2008) [http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos246.htm online] useful summary of job requirements, pay, and future prospects | | * Bureau of Labor Statistics. ''Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09: Truck Drivers and Driver/Sales Workers'' (2008) [http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos246.htm online] useful summary of job requirements, pay, and future prospects |
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| − | ==See Also== | + | ==See also== |
| | * [[Supply chain]] and [[Just in time|Just in Time]] distribution system | | * [[Supply chain]] and [[Just in time|Just in Time]] distribution system |
| | * '''[[Food distribution system]]:''' [[Transportation]] ([[truck]]s, [[ship]]s, [[railroad]], and [[airplane]]s), [[warehouse|warehousing]] (such as [[Amazon.com]], [[Costco]]), and [[retail]] facilities (such as [[Wal-Mart]]) which move [[food]] from the [[food production system]] to [[consumer]]s. | | * '''[[Food distribution system]]:''' [[Transportation]] ([[truck]]s, [[ship]]s, [[railroad]], and [[airplane]]s), [[warehouse|warehousing]] (such as [[Amazon.com]], [[Costco]]), and [[retail]] facilities (such as [[Wal-Mart]]) which move [[food]] from the [[food production system]] to [[consumer]]s. |