A Social Anthropology of Logistics Research: Exploring Productivity and Collaboration in an Emerging Science

摘要: For more than forty years, professionals and academics have undertaken scholarly research in the field of logistics, attempting to expand knowledge base discipline, thereby improve logistics practice. This study represents an initial investigation researchers who participated development field. Using a comprehensive database published articles from four leading journals, social network theory is applied for analysis researcher productivity collaboration. Results exploratory indicate that high levels are present logistics; however, results also show discipline would benefit significantly collaborative effort blending backgrounds perspectives across major groups, which currently somewhat isolated. Implications future discussed, advocating production within