CAPACITY OF LOGISTICS NETWORKS TO EVOLVE IN TIMES OF CRISIS
CAPACITÉ D'ÉVOLUTION DES RÉSEAUX LOGISTIQUES EN PÉRIODE DE CRISE
Résumé
The COVID-19 crisis, unprecedented in terms of its global
nature and duration, highlighted the weak points of logistics
networks, bringing to the forefront the recommendations for
reducing the vulnerability of these networks.
The objective of this article is to question the adaptability
of logistics organisations, their capacity to evolve towards
new ways of doing things in order to cope with the uncertainty
inherent in crises.
The article is based on the work of Burmeister (2000)
who classifies logistics and transportation organizations into
‘logistics families’. In each of the four families, coordination
between professionals is structured by a framework value, a
reference shared by the actors of the family considered to
make their choices. The question raised is therefore whether
the COVID-19 crisis has led to a shift in certain relationships
between professionals from one family to another, in other
words, a shift in framework values. The survey on which this
research is based shows that, although the actors of a given
logistics family adapt their logistics and transport strategies
to crisis situations, these strategies are always based on the
same framework value. Logistics families are therefore crisisresistant.
Thus, the relations between these actors, the choices they
make, remain guided by the framework values that governed
their relations before the crisis. The methods of coordination
between the actors in logistics networks do not change during
a crisis. This permanence of the coordination structure
is not, however, a limit to the profound change in logistics
networks, which remain adaptable.
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