Can logistics become an academic discipline? And can logistics risk be my new academic discipline? According to my own description, this site deals with supply chain risk research and related subjects. Or should I say logistics risks?  Perhaps logistics is indeed a wider and more comprehensive term than supply chain? I may be leaning towards that now, because in Towards a science of logistics: cornerstones of a framework of understanding of logistics as an academic discipline a selection of no less than eight academics from Germany describe the five cornerstones of logistics as an academic discipline, and show how logistics in fact can act as an integrative platform over a wide range of different issues at the micro meso and macro level. I never thought of that before.

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