Intermediate Commentary: On the Evolution of Three Meanings of Logistics

Peter Klaus and Yossi Sheffi
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Peter Klaus: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Yossi Sheffi: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A chapter in The Roots of Logistics, 2012, pp 117-126 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The following excerpt from a paper, which was presented at the Council of Logistics Management’s 26th Annual Educators’ Conference at Chicago, 1997, does not claim to rank as a “classic”. It is inserted as an intermediate commentary explaining how since the 1990s – when apparently the development of the field of Business Logistics had reached a level of maturity – academic logisticians started raising the question again, which Henry Eccles had asked from the perspective of a military logistician in 1954: “Logistics – what is it?” What is the essence of the field today? What constitutes its identity as a field of academic research? Does it have the right to call itself a science?

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27922-5_10

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