The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 31 Issue 2

Thirty years of the International Journal of Logistics Management – a retrospective analysis

Britta Gammelgaard, Satish Kumar, Debidutta Pattnaik, Rohit Joshi

International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM) celebrated 30 years of its publication in 2019. This study provides a retrospective overview of the IJLM articles between 1990…

Digital transformation at logistics service providers: barriers, success factors and leading practices

Marzenna Cichosz, Carl Marcus Wallenburg, A. Michael Knemeyer

The rapid advancement of digital technologies has fundamentally changed the competitive dynamics of the logistics service industry and forced incumbent logistics service providers…

The physical internet as a new supply chain paradigm: a systematic literature review and a comprehensive framework

Horst Treiblmaier, Kristijan Mirkovski, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Zach G. Zacharia

The physical internet (PI) is an emerging logistics and supply chain management (SCM) concept that draws on different technologies and areas of research, such as the Internet of…

Guest editorial

Shams Rahman, Nyoman Pujawan

Network resilience modelling: a New Zealand forestry supply chain case

Paul Childerhouse, Mohammed Al Aqqad, Quan Zhou, Carel Bezuidenhout

The objective of this research is to model supply chain network resilience for low frequency high impact disruptions. The outputs are aimed at providing policy and practitioner…

Profitability of the Northern Sea Route for liquid bulk shipping under post 2020 sulphur regulations

Tuomo Keltto, Su-Han Woo

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the profitability of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) as a shipping lane from the financial perspective of shipping companies under post 2020…

Perils of road freight market deregulation: cabotage in the European Union

Henrik S. Sternberg, Erik Hofmann, Robert E. Overstreet

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of the ongoing freight market deregulation in the European Union (EU). Specifically, this case study focuses on cabotage…

Sport logistics research: reviewing and line marking of a new field

David M. Herold, Tim Breitbarth, Nico Schulenkorf, Sebastian Kummer

Although logistics management is a crucial part of local and global sports events, there is no research-driven characterization of “sports logistics management”. The purpose of…

Corruption, gender inequality and logistics performance

Paul D. Larson

The purpose of this paper is to develop and test theory-driven hypotheses on the influence of corruption and gender inequality on logistics performance.