Essay Frontiers: A Call for Bold Ideas, New Voices, and New Directions in Logistics and SCM

Éditeurs invités

• Maciel Queiroz, FGV EAESP
• Morgane Fritz, Excelia Business School
• Britta Gammelgaard, University of Southern Denmark

Synthèse

Logistics and supply chain management (L/SCM) have advanced through analytical rigor and empirical refinement. However, the contemporary landscape, shaped by geopolitical shifts, digital transformation, climate pressures, and evolving societal expectations, requires more than incremental extensions of existing models. It calls for a reconsideration of the assumptions, values, and conceptual boundaries that underpin the field. Many of the most pressing challenges in L/SCM today are not only empirical, but also normative, philosophical, and inherently interdisciplinary.

This special issue seeks essays that move beyond established paradigms and offer reflective, provocative, and conceptually grounded perspectives that offer new lenses and open new directions for research and practice. The objective is to complement empirical work by fostering ideas that challenge, reframe, and extend our understanding of L/SCM.

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Thèmes proposés

• Algorithmic management and the reconfiguration of work in logistics
• Supply chains as political and strategic infrastructures
• Entrepreneurial supply chains in contexts of institutional fragility
• Efficiency versus dignity: ethical boundaries of automation
• Decolonizing supply chain theory and practice
• Beyond resilience: strategic adaptation, transformation, and fragility
• Platformization and ecosystem competition in logistics
• Invisible labor and precarity in digitally mediated supply chains
• Sustainability, legitimacy, and organizational narratives
• The role of human resources in supply chain management
• Temporal trade-offs: speed, flexibility, and human well-being
• Culture, identity, and coordination in global supply networks
• Human–AI collaboration and decision authority in SCM
• Moral responsibility and accountability in complex supply networks
• Business model innovation in circular and regenerative supply chains
• Reimagining SCM theory: integration, borrowing, or paradigm shift?