Journal evolution

摘要

Dear readers: This issue of LOGISTICS RESEARCH is the last one edited by the team which started and guided the journal through the first phase of its life (to be precise-and for the record-there was a "prenatal" period, when we tested the market and practiced the craft of making a journal through publication of a German-language journal LOGISTIK MANAGEMENT between 1999 and 2007). Five volumes of LOGISTICS RESEARCH articles were published between 2008 and 2012. The primary members of the team were Dr. habil. Angela Roth at Friedrich-Alexander-University, the helpful staff members of the journal's primary sponsor "BVL International Bundesve-reinigung Logistik e.V." and their Vice-President in charge of research, Joern Fontius, myself and-last but not least-Dr. Thomas Lehnert and the international professionals of SPRINGER Science and Business Media.