Procedure

Description

Methodology

Outputs

Measurement

Measurement of agglomeration level of logistics cluster

Hirschman-Herfindahl index, HHI

Measure of the logistics industrial agglomeration degree on holistic point of view

Entropy index

Measure of the orderly degree of different scale enterprises involved in the logistics cluster

Space Gini coefficient

The balance of spatial distribution of logistics cluster

Analysis

Analysis of association level of cluster external resources

Resource leverage analysis

Torque and lever of dynamical resource within the logistics cluster

Data Envelopment Analysis, DEA

Correlation between ecological system of logistics cluster and external resources

PEST Analysis

Identifying the external environments by analysis of political system, economic, social and technology

Extension and integration

Extension of value chain

Value chain strategy matrix

Strategies of value chain extension in different agglomeration and correlation levels