Leadership in logistics processes in contemporary SMEs
- DOI
- 10.2991/icseal-19.2019.37How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Leadership, logistics, SMEs, management, Poland
- Abstract
Dynamic changes in economic processes as a consequence of the development of production technologies and techniques entail creating new views on the concept of leadership. An additional factor shaping leadership attitudes are turbulent changes in the environment. The literature on the subject lacks research on leadership in relation to the management of logistics processes, and the presented research results mainly include a discussion on the cost aspect of leadership. In enterprises from the SME sector, the issues concerning leadership are usually overlooked due to the simplified organizational structure and the limited number of employees. Few theoretical studies contain reflections on the complex nature of modern leadership, focusing mainly on the area of human resource management, or include the phenomenon of leadership in the humanities. Knowledge about the role of leadership in a modern SME enterprise can contribute to improving their competitiveness, including improving logistics processes. The objectives of the article are to present: (1) literature research on the role of leadership in a modern SME enterprise and (2) research on the process character of leadership in logistics processes in an enterprise, and to propose an integrated model of the role of leadership. including presentation of a case study research to verify the theoretical model. In the process of constructing the methodological concept, which is the studied group of SME enterprises, the literature on the subject of management sciences including leadership issues was used. Survey research was carried out in 2018-19 with the participation of 100 management Master level students who prepared a given individual research project. In this way, we obtained data verifying the usefulness of the presented theoretical model. The results allow to some extent to identify problems occurring in SME enterprises in the subject of leadership in logistics processes, including logistic knowledge, demonstrating the usefulness of the integrated model to the analysis of leadership in the SME company, and is a starting point towards further research.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Danuta Janczewska PY - 2019/05 DA - 2019/05 TI - Leadership in logistics processes in contemporary SMEs BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social, Economic, and Academic Leadership (ICSEAL 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 228 EP - 235 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseal-19.2019.37 DO - 10.2991/icseal-19.2019.37 ID - Janczewska2019/05 ER -