INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN MATERIAL RESOURCES APPROACH. LOGISTICS BETWEEN MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN MATERIAL RESOURCES APPROACH. LOGISTICS BETWEEN MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Summary/Abstract: The need for interdependencies between different disciplines to address (theoretically and practically) the optimal solution to certain problems in various areas, based on these realities, has resulted, ever since the mid twentieth century, today being already advanced, at a macro level, the concept of "Hybrid Age" an equivalent to the fourth wave (in Toffler's language) in which human evolution turns into a man-technology co-evolution. So, "disciplinarity"-based concepts (trans, multi, inter) acquire complex meanings, completing initial area meanings, all these with the purpose of searching for new sources of organizational performance.The article investigates the issue of organizations' material resources approach (role and importance) in terms of principles and methodologies that are specific to a relatively young science, Logistics, with a specific management claimed to be solved by both economists and engineers. In the same note, in agreement with the theme of this conference, we also lay emphasis on the fact that there are discussions in Logistics literature regarding the civil-military inter-conditioning type, with significant results in the improvement of best practices in the field of logistics activities’ outsourcing.

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