Strategic aspects of an experimental approach to the logistics chain

Introduction
Neoclassical economics, which assumes the possibility of determining a level that “guarantees” the efficiency of the allocation of factors of production (land, capital, labor), is difficult to accept in the current and future conditions of the global economy. As practice shows, the economic man (homo oeconomicus), acting rationally in various environments (e.g., USA, EU, China, Japan, etc.), is unable to make optimal decisions.

Highlighting one of the factors of production in recent decades – human capital, and within it intellectual capital – suggested that combining the originally defined factors of production with the help of human capital would create the possibility of building a toolkit for their rationalization. One might have thought that the proverbial “goose that lays the golden eggs” was in our garden. However, looking at the market turmoil of recent years, it seems that nothing could be further from the truth. National economies and the global economy, as they evolve, continue to point to a lack of stability and the impossibility of fully rationalizing the decision-making process. The concept of social capital, used since the end of the 20th century in the context of factors of production, defined as a set of informal values and ethical norms common to members of a specific group and enabling them to act effectively, as well as situational and systemic approaches to the managerial decision-making process, have allowed for the inclusion in global analysis of factors previously overlooked or only partially captured, such as: culture along with environmental factors, geographical location, social structure, etc. (…)

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