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Intermediate Commentary: On the Evolution of Three Meanings of Logistics

In: The Roots of Logistics

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  • Peter Klaus

    (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

  • Yossi Sheffi

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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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?

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  • Peter Klaus & Yossi Sheffi, 2012. "Intermediate Commentary: On the Evolution of Three Meanings of Logistics," Springer Books, in: Peter Klaus & Stefanie Müller (ed.), The Roots of Logistics, edition 127, pages 117-126, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-27922-5_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27922-5_10
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