Abstract
Green agri-food supply chains are increasingly attracting research interest, owing to their potential capacity for resilience against recent crises (e.g., financial, COVID-19) as well as end-consumers’ concerns on sustainability issues. In this context, this paper aims to explore the relationship between green supply chain management practices and three different performance aspects, namely, supply chain, green (environmental) and business performance, and controlling for environmental dynamism. Field research was conducted through a structured questionnaire contacted to 134 executives of firms in the agri-food sector in Greece. The results reveal that information sharing, logistics networking and transportation are the most powerful factors that impact sustainable, business and supply chain performance. In addition, green packaging is related to financial and social performance aspects. Interestingly, green warehousing and logistics emissions failed to establish any relationship with performance outcomes. The conclusions and recommendations drawn in the present study are expected to provide meaningful guidance for the supply chain decision-making process, as logistics managers are becoming increasingly aware of exploiting all available resources, knowhow and competitive advantages for attaining sustainable performance.
Highlights
Interest in green logistics and sustainable supply chains has been rapidly growing for over two decades and the topic is becoming mainstream
Preceding Principal component analysis (PCA), the Bartlett sphericity testing on the degree of correlation between the variables (p < 0.001) and the Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) index verified the appropriateness of the sample
This paper presented a framework to identify and analyze the impact of green logistics and green supply chain management (GLM and green supply-chain management (GSCM)) components on performance, in terms of environmental, business and supply chain effectiveness, controlling for environmental dynamism and firms’ size
Summary
Interest in green logistics and sustainable supply chains has been rapidly growing for over two decades and the topic is becoming mainstream. The specificities that differentiate agri-food supply chains from other types of supply chains (such as shelf-life constraints and perishability of products, seasonality in cultivation), together with the growing ethical, societal and ecological challenges involved in their business, make it necessary to develop concrete decision tools, founded on the substantial linkage of various attributes with different performance dimensions in the light of sustainability. It is yet a largely unsettled actual challenge, calling for collective use of all available resources, know-how and continuous study, literature contains many types and subdivisions of key performance indicators regarding sustainability
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