Neo-institutional perception of the multidimensionality of modern logistics
Neo-institutional perception of the multidimensionality of modern logistics

Summary/Abstract: This article is an analytical study of the changing nature of modern logistics. The aim of the considerations undertaken is to identify the essence and nature of the contemporary multidimensionality of logistics from the point of view of science and economic practice. The research problem is whether institutional economics at the current stage of its development is up to the task resulting from the aim of the considerations undertaken? Finding an answer to the problem question should be helped by the achievements of new institutional economics It is reasonable to pose the hypothesis: “The multidimen- sionality of contemporary logistics is a response to the civilisational challenges of the modern world. An effective approach in recognising it is to identify it through the paradigm of institutional economics evoking its structural elements, i.e. “social ceremonies”; “technologies”; “philosophy” and “environment” surrounded by a “security belt”. The research methods to achieve this aim are the analysis of the literature on the subject as well as of economic practice, and its synthesis of conclusions allowing a characterisation of the multidimensionality of contemporary logistics, based on a set of essential determinants assigned to them. The picture identified in this way makes it possible to see both its positive sides and its negative sides, and to indicate the place of logistics in economic practice now and in the future. This approach should also make it possible, on the basis of past experience, to develop research arguments for logistics theory and directives for shaping economic practice for the present and the future.

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