Driving Factors of Smart Upgrading and Its Effect on Logistics Enterprises' Performance
SUN Lei and ZHANG Shu-shan （Northeast Normal University，Changchun，Jilin130024，China）
Abstract：The authors believe that，from logistic enterprises’cognition of the internal and external environment，we can carry out research on the impact of internal and external driving factors on enterprises’smart upgrade. After analyzing 300 logistic enterprises，the authors put forward that：both internal and external driving factors have a significant positive impact on the smart upgrade and performance of logistics enterprises；the smart upgrade of logistics enterprises has significant positive impact on enterprises performance；and the smart upgrade of logistics enterprises plays some intermediary role in the relationship between the internal and external driving factors and the performance of logistics enterprises. So logistic enterprises should pay more attention to strengthening the construction of such internal factors as support from top managers，organizational factors，and the capability for IT，take advantage of the external factors’leading role，design and implement the strategy of smart upgrade， promote the smart upgrade，and improve enterprises performance. The government should perfect related law and regulation， supervision system，policy and industrial standard，formulate logistic market access，establish the fair and orderly logistic market，optimize resource distribution efficiency，give full play to the role of the market mechanism of supply and demand， competition，and price，and guide and support the logistic enterprises’smart upgrade.
Key words：internal and external driving factors；smart upgrade；logistics enterprises performance；intermediary role