The influence of international cooperation on furniture manufacture's sector's loyalty to logistics service provider

Abstract

The paper deals with cooperation between business to business sector, its importance, necessity and the key elements that influence the success of the partnership. Also examined and the importance of the loyalty to business partner. Based on the scientific literature analysis, the model is presented. It reflects the key relationships between cooperation and loyalty. Also there are raised the hypothesis about relations between elements. Based on questionnaire survey, a study among Lithuanian furniture manufacturing companies was done in purpose to substantiate or refute the original claims. The results was calculated with SPSS software, using the correlation and regression analyzes. The key elements, that influences cooperation between the furniture manufacturing companies and logistics providers was identified. As well as the elements that influence the logistics service loyalty.