Title: A sustainable management framework for dilemma and boundaries in autonomous cooperating transport logistics processes

Authors: Ina Ehnert, Lars Arndt, Georg Mueller-Christ

Addresses: Department of Sustainable Management, Institute of Business Studies, University of Bremen, Bremen D-28359, Germany. ' Department of Sustainable Management, Institute of Business Studies, University of Bremen, Bremen D-28359, Germany. ' Department of Sustainable Management, Institute of Business Studies, University of Bremen, Bremen D-28359, Germany

Abstract: In our modern societies, transport logistics processes and systems seem to have reached their limits for expansion. The effects of transport logistics on the environment and human health contribute to major problems. This situation calls for new approaches for transport logistics and for managing sustainability. In this paper, we pick up the technological innovation of |Autonomous Logistics Processes|, (ALPs) an emerging paradigm using the idea of self-organisation for complex and dynamic logistic systems. The problems of this paradigm are discussed for a management with dilemma and boundaries, which we integrate into a sustainable management framework.

Keywords: sustainability; transport logistics; autonomous logistics processes; ALPs; dilemma; boundaries; sustainable development; sustainable management; technological innovation; self-organisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESD.2006.011555

International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 2006 Vol.5 No.4, pp.355 - 371

Published online: 01 Dec 2006 *

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