›› 2016, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (7): 93-101.

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Research on E-commerce and Express Logistics Synergy Development Path

Wu Shuping, Yu Baoqin   

  1. School of Business, Tianjin University of Finance & Economics, Tianjin 300222
  • Received:2015-09-30 Online:2016-07-28 Published:2016-09-01

Abstract:

Under the background of "Internet +", the rapid development of E-commerce in China has greatly increased the demand for logistics services. The collaborative development and joint prosperity between E-commerce and logistics industry is a complicated dynamic process. Based on synergetic theory of order parameter, regarding the system of E-commerce and logistics delivery as two complex economic systems, the paper builds a model of evaluating the degree of synergy between them. Then an empirical study is made using the statistical data for the last ten years. The results are consistent with the actual development, and show that the development of E-commerce is higher than the logistics service industry development. The overall synergy of the two has been rising year by year, but the degree of cooperation is growing slowly, and its development is a spiral process.

Key words: synergy degree, express logistics, E-commerce