TY - BOOK AU - Pilinkienė,Vaida AU - Deltuvaitė,Vilma AU - Daunorienė,Asta AU - Gaidelys,Vaidas ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Competitiveness Creation and Maintenance in the Postal Services Industry: A Lithuanian Case Study SN - 9783319319063 AV - HD28-70 U1 - 658.4092 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer KW - Leadership KW - Industrial organization KW - Service industries KW - Management information systems KW - Industrial management KW - Management KW - Market research KW - Business Strategy/Leadership KW - Industrial Organization KW - Services KW - Business Process Management KW - Innovation/Technology Management KW - Market Research/Competitive Intelligence N1 - Introduction -- Concept of Competitiveness and Methodological Principles of Competition Assessment -- Legal Regulation of Competition in Postal, Courier and Financial Services Industries -- Competition in Postal, Courier and Financial Services Industries -- Lithuanian Universal Postal Services Provider: Profile, Facts and Figures -- Lithuanian Universal Postal Services Provider's Business Strategy and Problems in Competitiveness -- Competitiveness Creation and Maintenance Experience in Lithuania and Foreign Countries -- Development of Lithuanian Universal Postal Services Provider's Competitiveness Maintenance Model -- Lithuanian Universal Postal Services Provider's Competitiveness Maintenance Strategy -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Annexes.; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - This book examines the changing business and economic environment for postal services in Lithuania and the upcoming challenges for this industry. Postal services continue to play a central part in the development of national economies. However, the economic and social role of postal services has changed rapidly and fundamentally over the last two decades. In most industrialized countries, paper-based communications are in serious decline, while the demand for parcel delivery services is rising steadily with the continuing development of e-commerce, just-in-time production techniques, and global supply chains. For the postal sector as a whole, the centre of gravity has shifted dramatically from letters and documents to parcels. The authors explain how the organizational paradigm has inexorably shifted from that of a national, government-owned postal administration providing the basic delivery services required by society, to a system of interdependent local and regional undertakings that both compete and cooperate with one another. The book argues that there are no indications that the postal sector has stopped changing, and that it seems most probable that the European Union’s postal sector will look quite different in 2035 than it does today. In closing, the book explains how the shareholders of postal services companies have recently confirmed that the time has come to rethink the strategy of creating and maintaining competitiveness in the postal services industry UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31906-3 ER -