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Self-healing Supply Networks: A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective

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This paper aims for a logical deductive literature-based generation of hypotheses regarding the robustness of complex adaptive logistics systems (CALS) based on self-healing processes. Therefore, the increasing necessity for supply networks to gain and maintain robustness in order to ensure a high reliability of their logistics services is shown. Additionally, the concept of CALS is presented in order to deduce the outcomes that result from a technology-based increase of the CALS characteristics. Finally, a set of hypotheses is developed that link the outcomes of CALS with the evolvement of self-healing processes in supply networks in order to deduce implications for their robustness. Hence, a starting point for further empirical and simulation-based research is presented, on which basis an operationalization of the outcomes of CALS and their self-healing abilities can be conducted.

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  1. Department Systems Management, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759, Bremen, Germany

    Philip Cordes

  2. Systems Management, International Logistics – School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759, Bremen, Germany

    Michael Hülsmann

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    Michael Hülsmann

  3. Bundeswehr University Munich, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, Neubiberg, 85577, Germany

    Eva-Maria Kern

  4. Beschaffung und Betrieb mbH, Supply Chain Management, Gesellschaft für Entwicklung,, Ferdinand-Porsche-Straße 1a, Köln, 51149, Germany

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Cordes, P., Hülsmann, M. (2013). Self-healing Supply Networks: A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective. In: Essig, M., Hülsmann, M., Kern, EM., Klein-Schmeink, S. (eds) Supply Chain Safety Management. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32021-7_14

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