Logistics
What is Logistics?
Logistics in Aalto University School of Business focuses on operations management and supply chain management including both theoretical and application oriented research.
Logistics is the planning, implementing and controlling of cost-effective flow and storage of goods from raw materials to finished goods, as well as, managing related information and services. The mission of logistics is to get the right goods or services to the right place, at the right time, and in the desired condition and quantity in relation to customer orders. Our research is related to essential challenges of the definition above, such as efficient flows in product and service supply chains, novel and emerging business model development and procurement of industrial and public services as well as sustainability aspects related to these.
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Current research topics
- Benchmarking Supply Networks
- Longitudinal Industrial Benchmarking
- Logistics Networks research
- Market Microstructure and Channels
- Capability-Based Strategies for Technology, Marketing and Supply Chain Managemen
- Service Modularity and organizations
- Business Models and E-business
- Sustainability of product and service Supply Chains
Examples of on-going projects
The InterTran: The InterTran Research Group is an interdisciplinary research group for sustainable law and business. The group’s central idea is to contribute to sustainable development while maintaining a strong focus on a sustainable circular economy. Particular attention is paid to the role of transport in sustainable development, but also other aspects of sustainable business are of interest.
TrafficSense is Aalto university joint project focusing on new traffic services and technologies based on crowd sensing. Our reseach focuses on novel business models, including pricing and earnings, as well as, roles of companies in traffic service networks and ecosystems. Contact person: Markku Tinnilä
Selected publications
Impact of future trends on personal mobility services
Tinnilä, Markku; Kallio, Jukka
2015
International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management
http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJATM.2015.072876
ISSN: 1470-9511
Opportunism and honest incompetence - Seeking explanations for noncompliance in public procurement
Strategic roles of service sites: application of Ferdow's model
Hallavo, Ville; Kuula, Markku; Putkiranta, Antero
2015
Benchmarking
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-12-2012-0083
ISSN: 1463-5771
Effect of change - a longitudinal study into the changing manufacturing structures
Kuula, Markku; Putkiranta, Antero; Toivanen, Jarmo
2014
Benchmarking
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-04-2012-0025
ISSN: 1463-5771
Using organisational theories to further our understanding of socially sustainable supply chains: The case of fair trade
Moxham, Claire; Kauppi, Katri
2014
Supply Chain Management: an International Journal
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/SCM-09-2013-0332
ISSN: 1359-8546
Developing a modular service architecture for e-store supply chains: the small- and medium-sized enterprise perspective
Bask, Anu; Merisalo-Rantanen, Hilkka; Tuunanen, Tuure
2014
Service Science
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/serv.2014.0082
ISSN: 2164-3962
eISSN: 2164-3970
Development of seaport-dry port dyads: two cases from Norther Europe
Bask, Anu; Roso, Violeta; Andersson, Dan; Hämäläinen, Erkki
2014
Journal of Transport Geography
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.06.014
ISSN: 0966-6923
Consumer preferences for sustainability and their impact on supply chain management: The case of mobile phones
Bask, Anu; Halme, Merja; Kallio, Markku; Kuula, Markku
2013
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJPDLM-03-2012-0081
ISSN: 0960-0035
Impact of product characteristics on supply chains: An analytical literature review
Bask, Anu; Tinnilä, Markku
2013
International Journal of Applied Logistics
http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jal.2013010103
ISSN: 1947-9573
Efficient service production: service factories in banking
Tinnilä, Markku
2013
Business Process Management Journal
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-Mar-2012-0026
ISSN: 1463-7154
E-commerce logistics: A literature research review and topics for future research
Bask, Anu; Lipponen, Mervi; Tinnilä, Markku
2012
International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications
http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jesma.2012070101
ISSN: 1941-627X
Londitudinal benchmarking studies in operations management: lessons learned
Kuula, Markku; Putkiranta, Antero
2012
Benchmarking
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14635771211243003
ISSN: 1463-5771
A classification of service facilities, servicescapes and service factories
Tinnilä, Markku
2012
International Journal of Services and Operations Management
http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJSOM.2012.045659
ISSN: 1744-2370
Non-Compliant Work Behaviour in Purchasing: An Exploration of Reasons Behind MaverickBuying
Karjalainen, K.; Kemppainen, K.; Raaij, E. van
2009 Journal of Business Ethics
ISSN: 0167-4544
Mapping the structural properties of production process and product mix
Kemppainen, K.; Vepsäläinen, A.P.J.; Tinnilä M.
2008
International Journal of Production Economics
ISSN: 0925-5273