Research in the Decision Sciences for Global Business: Best Papers from the 2013 Annual Conference

19. Barriers of Interdisciplinary Decision Making: Integrating Production, Logistics, and Traffic

—Hans-Christian Pfohl, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

—Christian Zuber, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Abstract

The objective of the paper is to identify the barriers for interdisciplinary decision making in production, logistics, and traffic and transport. The paper will show why decision makers do not include/consider affected parties in their decision making.

At first, the authors build basic knowledge about existing interdependencies by using systems theory. They develop a systematization of logistics, production, and traffic state spaces by Pfohl’s model of design and context variables of logistics systems. Then, a case ...