Rezyliencja ekonomiczna i model biznesu przedsiębiorstwa logistycznego

Abstract

In 2020, many pressures have accumulated affecting the real economy and the existing economic theories describing and explaining them. These pressures include the global economic crisis, natural and climate disaster, political tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic, which are mutually reinforcing and represent a temporal turning point in the practice and theory of economics and management. The shock of 2020 also undoubtedly concerns the principles and methods of managing a logistics company. The study analyses and critically evaluates the current method of evaluating the efficiency of logistics company management and the business model corresponding to this method. The economic, social and natural consequences of the hitherto economic activity of logistics companies were indicated. In order to overcome the identified negative effects of their activities, new evaluation criteria and a new business model were proposed. It is postulated that the so-called economic resilience (RE), which consists of a set of specific criteria related to economic productivity, safety and agility. Economic productivity ensures the financial profitability of business activity, safety refers to sanitary and social guarantees, and agility to effective market adjustments. The proposed business model should be composed of three key mechanisms – sectoral, innovative and cultural. The sectoral mechanism is created by the driving forces of competition, the innovative mechanism - striving to improve the existing facts, and the cultural mechanism – the applicable ethical and moral standards.