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𝗛𝗲́𝘁𝗲́𝗿𝗼𝗱𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 : 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹:
Logistique & Management

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿:
Taylor & Francis Group

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲:
07 January 2027

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲

Logistics and Supply Chain Management have traditionally been dominated by normative and performance-driven approaches focused on efficiency, optimization, resilience, and digital transformation. However, this Special Issue seeks to broaden the field by exploring logistics from unconventional, critical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Titled “Hétérodoxie logistique : explorer des chemins de traverse” (Heterodox Logistics: Exploring Alternative Pathways), the Special Issue encourages scholars to examine logistics as a social, political, historical, and cultural phenomenon. It invites research on often-overlooked practices, actors, and dynamics that shape logistical systems beyond mainstream frameworks.

The issue particularly welcomes studies investigating informal economies, parallel networks, illicit and clandestine flows, historical supply systems, controversial infrastructures, and marginal social practices. Such contexts provide valuable insights into alternative forms of coordination, material flows, and power structures that underpin logistics and supply chains.

Researchers are encouraged to challenge conventional assumptions and contribute critical, reflexive, and exploratory perspectives that expand the theoretical and methodological boundaries of logistics and supply chain research.

𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Logistics practices in informal, illegal, or clandestine contexts
• Rethinking traditional supply chain concepts such as performance, resilience, coordination, and visibility
• Historical continuities between slavery, colonial logistics, and contemporary systems
• Organization of flows in constrained, uncertain, and hostile environments
• Roles of infrastructures, institutions, and technologies in alternative logistics systems
• Just-in-time models and supply chain transformations following COVID-19 disruptions
• Logistics approaches supporting sovereignty and industrial relocation
• Short supply chains as forms of heterodox logistics
• Construction and reconfiguration of boundaries between licit and illicit logistics systems
• Ethical, political, and societal implications of studying unconventional logistics phenomena
• Contributions of heterodox logistics to new theoretical and methodological developments in supply chain research

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀

• Full papers should be submitted in French and prepared according to the author guidelines of Logistique & Management.
• Manuscripts must be submitted through the Taylor & Francis submission platform by 07 January 2027.
• All submissions will undergo the journal’s standard double-blind peer-review process.
• The Special Issue is expected to be published in 2028 (Volume 36, Issue 1).
• Contributions are welcomed across multiple formats, including research articles, case studies, expert viewpoints, and book or work reviews.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹

Logistique & Management is an international scholarly journal dedicated to advancing research in logistics and supply chain management. The journal publishes interdisciplinary and practice-oriented research addressing contemporary challenges, emerging theories, and innovative approaches to logistics and supply chain systems.

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

Adèle Fouché, Université de Tours
François Fulconis, Aix-Marseille Université
Gilles Paché, Aix-Marseille Université

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 — 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

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