LOGISTICS. COMPLEXITIES OF HISTORY AND NEW HORIZONS

Prof. dr hab. Piotr Banaszyk

Head of Logistics Department at Poznan University of Economics and Business. His research interests are focused in the field of logistics and supply chain management, the strategic management and the history of management thought.

Head of the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management at the University of Opole. She has focused her research interests for more than 15 years on the use of the potential of logistics and supply chain management in local government units. She also conducts research in the area of city logistics and smart city.

Professor of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Social Logistics at the University of Economics in Katowice. He has been focusing his scientific interests for over 15 years on the potential of logistics in urban management, health care, humanitarian actions and other applications of social logistics. In his research and theoretical considerations he draws on the experience of other scientific disciplines, implementing an interdisciplinary approach in the field of city functioning, including city logistics. He is the originator of social logistics, treated on an equal footing with military and economic logistics as the third conceptual area of logistics. He is the author of nine academic textbooks and six scientific monographs, over 60 chapters in scientific monographs, over 200 scientific articles published in the country and abroad. He is a scientific editor of 17 scientific papers. He has extensive managerial experience – he has held management positions at the highest levels in banking and service institutions and in production companies including those with foreign capital.