Evaluation Approaches for Measuring Economic Efficiency of Digitization Technologies in Transport Logistics: A Systematic Literature Review Protocol

Comprehensive digitization is one of the biggest megatrends of our time and affects all industries, including the large sector of transport logistics. To gain transparency about the economic added values in digitization investments, there are various evaluation methods in business administration. However, the transport logistics industry is characterized by individual very heterogeneous market participants and application-specific processes. A deep and diverse understanding of already used and additionally suitable business evaluation methods in transport logistics is therefore not given. To obtain previous scientific knowledge, on the use of business evaluation methods in transport logistics, it is necessary to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR). This ensures the development of the current state of research in compliance with scientific principles. This paper presents a research protocol that describes the methodological procedure for conducting a suitable systematic literature review to meet the necessary scientific requirements of comparability, repeatability, and rigor. This research protocol forms the basis for the procedure of the planned systematic literature review and thus ensures the reproducible and rigorous future extraction of results.