Purpose: Digital freight forwarder (DFF) start-ups and their associated business models have gained increasing attention within both academia and industry. However, there is a lack of empirical research investigating the differences between DFFs and traditional freight forwarders (TFF) and the...

Purpose: Disruptive technologies in the global logistics industry are often regarded as a threat to the existing business models of incumbents’ companies. Existing research, however, focuses mainly on whether technologies have disruptive potential, thereby neglecting when such disruptive...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into the reactions and lessons learned with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of how logistics service providers (LSPs) managed to maintain supply chains resilience and what focus areas have been changed to keep operations...

Purpose: 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 this paper is to conceptualize a framework that allows for a more structured recognition of logistics in...

Part I: Supply Chain Disruptions and Resilience -- 1. Definition and Development of Supply Chain Resilience -- 2. Supply Chain Resilience: A Decade of Evolvement -- 3. Supply Chain Resilience Framework -- 4. Supply Chain Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 5. Pandemic-Related Disruptions...