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Dr hab. Blanka Tundys
ORCID: 0000-0001-5024-4722

Dr hab. Blanka Tundys, prof. US

Professor at the Department of Logistics, Institute of Management, University of Szczecin. Author of over 100 scientific publications (in Polish, English and German) and studies for business practice. Her research interests focus on issues related to City Logistics, Smart City, Green and Sustainable Supply Chain and closed-loop economy. She performed managerial roles in projects funded by National Centre of Science and National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR) and coordinated scientific cooperation within the grant of the Polish-German Foundation for Science. She is an expert of RPO, NCBiR and Interreg programme. She is a reviewer in prestigious domestic and foreign scientific journals and sits on scientific committees of national and international conferences.

 
DOI: 10.33226/1231-2037.2022.11.2
JEL: F5, F6, L1

Incidental disruptions, especially those that were previously non-existent and unlikely in terms of their negative impact, have been an economic reality for several years. The consequences of disruptions affect the activities of entities located in the remotest parts of the globe, and changing sources of uncertainty require action to build more resilient systems. The identified ripple effect is increasingly a consequence of the global risks occurring. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of supply chain issues, the most frequently identified crises in recent years and their ripple effect consequences. The aim of the analysis was to indicate how interest in the subject of the ripple effect has changed in recent years, in the context of supply chain analysis, as evidenced by the increasing number of scientific publications, authors, area and scope of research analysis. The use of the ripple effect in supply chain research is a relatively new phenomenon, and the presentation of quantitative data is a new insight into the topic under study, which is difficult to investigate by other methods.

Keywords: ripple effect; disruptions in the supply chain; bibliometric analysis; crises; Web of Science
DOI: 10.33226/1231-2037.2021.8.1
JEL: M1, O1, R4

The increase in the importance of logistics in economic processes in recent years has significantly influenced the perception of the broadly defined transport system and its efficiency as an element of the logistics system, based on which processes in supply chains are implemented or logistics networks are developed. A synthetic measure of the logistics efficiency of economies has become the LPI — Logistics Performance Index created by the World Bank. It aims, among other things, to indicate how the TSL industry (transport–shipping–logistics) influences the economy of individual regions, including how strongly it is connected with trade development and export diversification, and how internationalised logistics processes influence regional development. Taking into account the methodology of its creation and the surveyed target group, as well as its cyclicality and invariability of the input data and the possibility of comparisons, it should be pointed out that it reflects the situation and trends in the TSL sector worldwide and in individual economies. The aim of the paper is to indicate the logistic attractiveness of Poland, based on the LPI index, as an important factor of expansion and location of logistic infrastructure investments (linear and point) and to show how both the position of Poland and the value of individual components of the Polish index changed over the years and how it influenced the changes on the TSL market in Poland. The data is based on the values of the index from 2007 to 2018. The considerations are based on the interpretation of individual components of the index using comparative analysis, indicating recommendations and conclusions on the impact of changes in the ranking and LPI values for Poland.

Keywords: LPI; Logistics Performance Index; logistics sector in Poland; infrastructure