Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the current state of Industry 4.0 in the automotive sector to show the associated expectations, opportunities, risks, and challenges. Requirements and concrete approaches for future research needs are derived within the framework of a research agenda....

Crowd Logistics (CL) is identified as a topic of high importance in the area of logistics. From the practical point of view, initial experiences and realizations have already been gained, however, scientific research regarding Crowd Logistics is still in its infancy and multiple research...

Purpose – Sectors with high transport volumes face the challenge of reengineering existing processes. Furthermore, new models that support transportation processing are required. One possible model would be a fourth party logistics service provider (4PL) approach in order to increase the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the nature and characteristics of crowd logistics business models. Using this evaluation, a new concept for a sustainable implementation of crowd logistics services is proposed. Design/methodology/approach The Design Science process was followed...