The intention of this article is to show possible contributions of the concept of autonomous cooperation to enable complex adaptive logistics systems (CALS) to cope with increasing complexity and dynamics and therefore to increase the systems' information-processing capacity by implementing...

Identifikation von Anforderungen an ein Messinstrument für Dynamic Capabilities -- Terminologische Basis eines Messinstruments -- Vorgehensweise zur Entwicklung eines Messinstruments für spezielle Dynamic Capabilities.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze whether supply networks may be validly treated as complex adaptive systems (CAS). Finding this to be true, the paper turns into the latest concerns of complexity science like Pareto distributions to explain well‐known phenomena of...

Today’s supply networks consist of a certain amount of logistics objects that are enabled to interact with each other and to decide autonomously upon their next steps; in other words, they exhibit a certain degree of autonomous cooperation. Therefore, modern logistics research regards them as...

Modern technologies, such as RFID, offer never-before seen learning abilities to parts moving in supply chains. Logistics systems may be understood as complex adaptive logistics systems (CALS). They also may be conceived as electronic auction markets as 'smart parts' bid for the best routing and...

Global supply chains (GSCs) are confronted with the phenomenon of hyper-competition. For this reason there seems to be an increasing necessity for GSCs to build up competitive advantage in order to survive. Strategic flexibility is assumed to have positive effects on generating required...

Im Mittelpunkt des Schaffens von Andreas Remer, dem dieser Band gewidmet ist, steht die Modernisierung des Managements. Schwerpunkt ist die Entwicklung von Systemen und deren instrumentelle Gestaltung. Die Autoren dieses Bandes präsentieren Ansätze und Konzepte, die Anregungen zu einer...

Companies face a variety of risks resulting from cost reduction strategies, rationalization measures, global sourcing, and outsourcing activities. Due to the large number of actors involved, extremely close ties emerge, which significantly increase supply chains’ vulnerability to disruptions -...

Management hat die Aufgabe, zwischen Idee (Gestaltungsansprüche eines Unternehmens gegenüber seiner Umwelt) und Realität (Bedingungen, die die Verwirklichung dieser Ansprüche limitieren) zu vermitteln. Die Unvereinbarkeit dieser beiden Pole stellt das Management vor ein Orientierungsdilemma:...