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The impact of COVID‐19 on logistics and coping strategies: A literature review

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  • Zhen Li
  • Wen Gu
  • Qingfeng Meng

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has posed many challenges to the continuous development of logistics and has received increasing attention from all sectors of society. This paper systematically reviews 85 related papers; sets the framework of literature analysis on the basis of five fields of logistics: life, e‐commerce, healthcare, air transportation, and emergency; systematically composes and analyzes the scope and content of the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on logistics in different fields; and comprehensively shows the current status of research on the impact of COVID‐19 on the continuous development of logistics. On this basis, we combed out the diverse measures of government, enterprises, and related institutions for the logistics problems that have emerged, and put forward some prospects for future research in this field in terms of multi‐period strategies, multi‐factor evaluation, degree of impacts, and quantification of effects. The work in this paper has some reference value and significance for mitigating or eliminating the negative impact of COVID‐19 on the continuous development process of logistics in multiple fields, rationalizing the epidemic response measures and expanding and deepening the research on this topic. La pandemia de COVID‐19 ha planteado numerosos retos para el desarrollo continuo de la logística y ha recibido una atención cada vez mayor por parte de todos los sectores de la sociedad. Este artículo consiste en una revisión sistemática de 85 artículos relacionados, para la cual: establece el marco de análisis de la literatura sobre la base de cinco campos de la logística, como la vida, el comercio electrónico, la asistencia sanitaria, el transporte aéreo y las emergencias; compone y analiza sistemáticamente el alcance y el contenido del impacto de la pandemia de COVID‐19 en diferentes campos de la logística; y muestra en profundidad el estado actual de la investigación sobre el impacto de COVID‐19 en el desarrollo continuo de la logística. Partiendo de esta base, se hizo un cribado de las diversas medidas que han surgido por parte del gobierno, las empresas y las instituciones relacionadas con los problemas logísticos, y se plantean algunas perspectivas para futuras investigaciones en este campo en términos de estrategias multiperiodo, evaluación multifactorial, graduación de impactos y cuantificación de efectos. El trabajo de este artículo tiene cierto valor de referencia e importancia para mitigar o eliminar el impacto negativo de COVID‐19 en el proceso de desarrollo continuo de la logística en múltiples campos, racionalizar las medidas de respuesta a la epidemia y ampliar y profundizar la investigación sobre este tema. COVID‐19のパンデミックは、物流の継続的な発展に多くの課題をもたらし、社会のあらゆる部門からの注目が高まっている。本稿は、関連する文献85件のシステマティックレビューにより、物流の5つの分野(生活、Eコマース、医療、航空輸送、救命救急)に基づく文献の分析の枠組みの設定、COVID‐19のパンデミックが様々な分野の物流に及ぼす影響の範囲と内容の体系的な構成の分析、及びCOVID‐19が物流の継続的発展に与える影響に関する研究の現況の包括的な提示を行う。その上で、これまでに発生した物流問題に対する行政、企業、関連機関の様々な方策をまとめ、多期間戦略、多要素評価、影響の程度、影響の定量化などの観点から、この分野の今後の研究の展望を述べる。本稿の研究は、複数の分野における物流の継続的な発展のプロセスに対するCOVID‐19の悪影響を緩和または排除する、パンデミック対策を合理化する、あるいはこのトピックに関する研究を広め、深めることにおける基準と意義を有するものである。

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  • Zhen Li & Wen Gu & Qingfeng Meng, 2023. "The impact of COVID‐19 on logistics and coping strategies: A literature review," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(8), pages 1768-1794, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:15:y:2023:i:8:p:1768-1794
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12665
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