For more than forty years, professionals and academics have undertaken scholarly research in the field of logistics, attempting to expand the knowledge base of the discipline, and thereby improve logistics practice. This study represents an initial investigation of logistics researchers who have participated in the development of the field. Using a comprehensive database of published logistics articles from four leading journals, social network theory is applied for analysis of logistics researcher productivity and collaboration. Results of the exploratory study indicate that high levels of researcher productivity are present in logistics; however, the results also show that the discipline would benefit significantly from more collaborative effort blending researcher backgrounds and perspectives across major research groups, which are currently somewhat isolated. Implications for future logistics research are discussed, advocating more collaborative research production within the field.
A Social Anthropology of Logistics Research: Exploring Productivity and Collaboration in an Emerging Science
Chad W. Autry,Stanley E. Griffis
Published 2005 in Transportation journal
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PUBLICATION RECORD
- Publication year
2005
- Venue
Transportation journal
- Publication date
2005-09-01
- Fields of study
Sociology, Business, Engineering
- Identifiers
- External record
- Source metadata
Semantic Scholar
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CLAIMS
CONCEPTS
- collaboration
Joint research activity among multiple researchers or groups in producing logistics scholarship.
Aliases: collaborative effort
- four leading journals
The set of four major journals from which the logistics articles were collected.
Aliases: leading journals, major journals
- logistics research
Scholarly work focused on the logistics discipline and its development.
Aliases: logistics discipline
- logistics researchers
Researchers and academics who publish scholarly work in logistics.
Aliases: logistics scholars
- major research groups
The main clusters of logistics researchers whose connections and separation are examined.
Aliases: research groups
- published logistics articles database
The compiled corpus of logistics articles drawn from the journals used as the study resource.
Aliases: comprehensive database
- researcher backgrounds and perspectives
Differences in training, experience, and viewpoints brought by logistics researchers to collaboration.
Aliases: backgrounds and perspectives
- researcher productivity
The volume or output of published work attributed to individual researchers or research groups.
Aliases: productivity
- social network theory
An analytic framework that studies relationships and connectivity among actors in a network.
Aliases: SNT
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