Abstract
The uprising economic, social and political pressures on achieving a good level of environmental governance have forced companies to adopt business practices that aim to mitigate CO2 emissions. Logistics industry is considered as one of the major areas that could make a considerable improvement in reducing the environmental impact of business activities. The aim of this study is to investigate the driving forces that influence the adoption of environmentally friendly logistics activities. Following a detailed literature review, a theoretical model, which encompassed several driving forces and logistics activities, has been developed. Survey-based quantitative data were collected from logistics service providers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and analysed using structural equation modelling methodology and multiple regression analysis. Through answering 110 questionnaires, respondents holding different managerial levels at logistics service organizations, provided data reflecting their perception of the forces that would influence the adoption of green logisticspractices. The driving forces (legislations, customers, and organizational awareness) were found to influence the adoption of green logistics practices by the logistics service industry in the areas of warehousing, packaging and transportation.
Highlights
Since the early 1970s, as economic pressures on businesses began to grow, companies started to look for new practices to improve the efficiency of their operations through a better management of material and resources flows (Grawe, 2009)
Given that there is a multidimensional expansion of the literature in the area of corporate environmental management, this paper focuses on three green logistics practices namely transportation, warehousing, and packaging
Companies in United Arab Emirates (UAE) are under increasing pressure to adopt green practices in order to mitigate the environmental impact of their logistics activities
Summary
Since the early 1970s, as economic pressures on businesses began to grow, companies started to look for new practices to improve the efficiency of their operations through a better management of material and resources flows (Grawe, 2009). There are driving forces for “greenness” that are forcing firms to adopt green practices throughout their operations, which include mounting energy costs, worldwide alarms among corporate over Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions, climate change, governmental regulations and increased community awareness of environmental issues. This study tries to understand the driving forces for the adoption of green logistics practices with a particular reference to the logistics service providers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The aim of this study is to investigate the perception of logistics managers of the driving forces and green logistics practices adopted in transportation, warehousing and packaging activities in their companies. The need to mitigate the impact of business logistics activities on the environment is constantly increasing Companies are redesigning their logistics practices to make the activities more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. The final section introduces the conclusions, limitations, contributions and future research suggestions
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