Research frameworks in logistics-three models, seven dinners and a survey

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1、IJPDLMResearchframeworksin25,10logisticsThreemodels,sevendinnersanda60surveyReceivedJanuary1995StephenJ.NewRevisedAugust1995ManchesterSchoolofManagement,UMIST,Manchester,UK,andPhilipPayneHeadquarters,RoyalAirForceLogisticsCommand,Huntingdon,UKIntroductionThisarticleisaboutresear

2、chanditsproblems.Itconsidersoneareaofmanagementresearchandexploresitsparticulardifficulties.Thearticlebeginswiththespecialcharacteroflogistics,andhighlightsthetensionbetweentechnicalandstrategic,andtheproblemoffindingappropriatecausalmodels.Thisleadstoadiscussionofaparticularinv

3、estigationwhichdeployedanunusualmixofmethods.Thearticleconcludeswithasummaryoflessonsforfutureresearch.Logistics:whyresearchissodifficultLogisticsisoneofthesub-fieldsofmanagementwhichlikestowallowinitsownobscurity.Conferencesandtradejournalstendtoreiteratethecommonlyheldviewthat

4、logisticsisavitalbusinessareawhichhasbeentoolongneglected,andthatthewiderworldisjustnowbeginningtoappreciatetheimportanceofthefield.Thisrallyingcrybecomeslesspersuasivewhenitispointedoutthatthesamerhetoriccropsupinothermanagerialdisciplines.Itseemsacommonstrategyistore-designate

5、afieldandthenexpanditshorizons:thuspersonnelhasbecomethe“moretrendy”humanresourcemanagement[1];qualityandinspectionbecomestotalquality;maintenancebecomestotalpreventivemaintenance,andsoon.Logisticsfollowsthispatternbyevolvingintointegratedlogisticsorstrategicsupplychainmanagemen

6、t,oranyotherlabelwhichcanbegeneratedbycombiningmanagerialbuzzwords.Thiscontinualrelabelling(orstrategicdisciplinetitlere-engineering,aswenowcallit)seemsharmlessenough,butitdoesrevealamoreseriousproblem.Wehavearguedelsewhere[2]thattheuseofsupplychainterminologymayinTheauthorsgrat

7、efullywishtoacknowledgethecollaborationofA.T.KearneyLtdintheresearchInternationalJournalofPhysicaldescribedinthisarticle,andthesupportoftheInstituteofLogistics.ThanksarealsoduetoMarkDistribution&LogisticsRhodes,ClaireFaichnieandPaulWhittle.Anearlierversionofthisarticlewaspresent

8、edtotheManagement,Vol.25No.10,1995,FifthAnnualM