Sustainable Logistics Management in the 21st Century Requires Wholeness Systems Thinking

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124392" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124392</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124392" target="_blank" >10.3390/su10124392</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sustainable Logistics Management in the 21st Century Requires Wholeness Systems Thinking

Original language description

The 21st century is characterised by the unprecedented speed and scope of changes, creating a new external environment, where the logistics systems are managed. The latest development in logistics management is influenced by sustainability, which complements the economic dimension with environmental and social dimensions. The fundamental principle of logistics management is systems thinking (ST). Until now, the reductionism ST (RST), focusing on the maximal economic performance of a logistics system’s parts and interactions has been applied. However, the RST approach does not sufficiently consider the implication of the external environment to the economic performance. The article’s aim is the introduction of the new wholeness ST (WST) approach and confirmation of its fundamental role in deriving of the performance of the selected logistics system’s parts and interactions from the external environment. WST’s role was demonstrated in a case study, comparing the WST and RST approach in management of particular automotive logistics’ system. The WST approach in the management of the whole selected logistics system assures a considerable reduction in the consumption of resources. Based on the comparative case study’s results, the conceptual framework for the application of the WST approach in all sustainable dimensions is proposed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

1-26

UT code for WoS article

000455338100058

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85057225116