1、英文 2505 单词,14890 字符;中文 4265 汉字 外文文献:The development of green logistics for implementation sustainable development strategy in panies Abstract While environmental issues have bee critical concerns all over the world, organizations are constantly under pressure to develop environmentally responsible a
2、nd friendly operations.mitment to the natural environment has bee an important variable.Therefore, the interest in developing green logistics from panies, government, and the public is increasing dramatically especially because traditional logistics cannot meet the requirements of modern society and
3、 has huge impact on the environment.The purpose of this paper is to present determinant factors that can influence the development of green logistic concept in panies as an element of Sustainable Development.Keywords:Greenlogistics,environmental sustainability,Sustainable Development, factors, envir
4、onmenta practices, pany.1.Introduction In recent years there has been increasing concern about the environmental effects on the pla of human activity.That is why it has had ab increasing amount of attention in the popular press, in governmental agendas, in the academic literature and from the genera
5、l public.Stakeholders are increasingly pressuring firms to assume responsibility for any negative effects their business activities might cause as well.The results are that firms are considering the incorporation of environmental thinking into their business strategies in Polish panies (Romanowska,
6、20_4).The rising attention to the greener solutions doesn&rs;t leave logistics aside because it plays a very important role, as it is one of the main pollution sources and resource user.2.Green logistics and sustainable development Typically, logistics is seen as the actions of which the objective i
7、s to minimize costs and ma_imize profits.The term was used mostly in purely business areas e_hibiting panies and in financial reports.But, for many years, the term logistics was used in conjunction with the “green” by creating “Green Logistics” - the term containing costs, yet did not ear on financi
8、al reports and on the environment and society.The term “green logistics” is defined as supply chain management practices and strategies that reduce the environmental and energy footprint of freight distribution, which focuses on material handling, waste management, packaging and transport (Rodrigue
9、et al., 20_).Green logistics consists of all activities related to the eco-efficient management of the forward and reverse flows of products and information between the point of origin and the point of consumption whose purpose is to meet or e_ceed customer demand (Mesjasz-Lech, 2021).Lee Klassen (2
10、021) describe green logistics as Green Supply Chain Management that can be defined as an organizations activity taking into account environmental issues and integrating it into supply chain management in order to change the environmental performance of suppliers and customers (Lee Klassen, 2021).Gre
11、en logistics activities include measuring the environmental impact of different distribution strategies, reducing the energy usage in logistics activities, reducing waste and managing its treatment (Sibihi Eglese, 2021).From the sustainable development point of view, green logistics can be defined a
12、s, “producing and distributing goods in a sustainable way, taking account of environmental and social factors” (Sibihi Eglese, 2021).This broad definition of green logistics is in line with the WCED (1987) definition of sustainable development and definitions of corporate responsibility (Lyon Ma_wel
13、l, 2021).The three pillars of Sustainable Development can be lied to green logistics (see Figure 1).As mentioned in the definitions of green logistics before, in the past, panies coordinated their logistics activities prising freight transport, warehousing, packaging, materials handling and data col
14、lection and management to meet customer requirements at minimum cost which just refers to the moary terms (Nowakowska-Grunt, 2021).Now, the environment has bee a concern.It is treated as a factor of the cost.Some panies have already taken e_ternal costs of logistics associated especially with the en
15、vironmental issues such as climate change, pollution and noise into account.Green logistics is therefore defined as efforts to e_amine ways of reducing these e_ternalities and achieving a more sustainable balance between environmental, economic and social objectives, (see Figure 1).All efforts in th
16、e “green” logistics area are therefore focused on contributing towards, and ensuring, sustainability (Hans, 2021).conomic Figure 1.Green logistics as an element of sustainable development.Over the past 40 years, “Green Logistics” has represented a lot of nature trails, the most distinguishable as fo
17、llows: reduction in transport costs, city logistics, corporate environmental strategies towards logistics, reverse logistics, green supply chain management.The green logistics represents also three perspectives: public (public to private), operational (operational to strategic) and local (local to g
18、lobal).The first perspective of green logistics relates to pressure groups which began to lobby government intervention to mitigate the damaging effects of freight movement and public agencies sought to improve their understanding of the problem and find means of addressing it.The public sector inte
19、rest in this subject has been plemented by a growth in the private sector involvement in green logistics research as business has begun to formulate environmental strategies both at a corporate level and more specifically for logistics.Operational to strategic as a second general trend has been a br
20、oadening of the corporate mitment to green logistics, from the adoption of a few minor operational changes to the embedding of environmental principles in strategic planning.Local to global perspective is focused on the local environmental impact of air pollution, vibration, noise, accidents and vis
21、ual intrusion.With climate change now the dominant environmental issue of the age, the impact of logistics on global atmospheric conditions has bee a major focus of many researchers (McKinnon A., Browne Whiteing, 2021).3.Green logistics and reverse logistics It is worth mentioning about the reverse
22、logistics which is a part of green logistics.Rogers and Tibben-Lembke (1999) briefly consider the differences between reverse logistics and green logistics.In reverse logistics there should be some flow of products or goods back from the consumer to an earlier stage of the supply chain.The reduction
23、 of waste that this implies certainly means that reverse logistics should be included within green logistics.Currently, the term “green logistics” is often used interchangeably with “reverse logistics”, but in contrast to the reverse logistics, green logistics“summarizes logistics activities that ar
24、e primarily motivated by environmental considerations” (Scott, Lundgren Thompson, 2021).First of all, the most significant difference is that reverse logistics concentrates on saving money and increasing value by reusing or reselling materials to recover lost profits and reduce operational costs.In
25、turn green logistics focuses on transportation issues, recycling and re-use.“Green logistics is about using material friendly options for transportation and centered on saving money but places priority on the pany&s image” (Nylund, 20_).DeBrito (20_3) clarifies that green logistics focuses on the fo
26、rward flow of the supply chain while reverse logistics is viewed as sustainable development.“The prominent environmental issues in green logistics are consumption of non- renewable natural resources, and both hazardous and non- hazardous waste disposal” (DeBrito, 20_3).Green logistics is often known
27、 as ecological logistics defined as “understanding and minimizing the ecological impacts of logistics” (Rogers and Tibben-Lembke, 1998).These activities are designed to measure environmental impacts on transport reducing energy consumption, and reducing the use of materials (see Figure 2).Figure 2.p
28、arison of green logistics and reverse logistics 4.The drivers of green logistics 4.1.Factors affecting green logistics from a wide perspective Schmied (2021) distinguishes four factors affecting green logistics – pany, customers, politics, and society.According to Figure 3, it can be concluded
29、 that each of the factors may affect green solutions (Schmied, 2021).From the consumers point of view they have their own requirements for green products and services.Customers especially with high environmental awareness may require products delivered with clean vehicles or in such manner that the
30、emissions are minimized, forcing suppliers to go to green solutions.This should be a key drive for panies that are taking measures in green logistics.By understanding the consumers important role in green logistics it can be beneficial for the pany.Perhaps the biggest affect from customers may be ho
31、me delivery, as they are the direct users of this service.Figure 3.General factors affecting green logistics 4.2.Determinant factors of green logistics at a corporate level Many researchers have proposed various e_planations as to what factors influence a firm&s adoption of environmental practices.Generally, we can distinguish e_ternal and internal factors of environmental practices (Murillo-Luna, Garcs- Ayerbe Rivera-Torres, 2021).Stakeholder pressure, environmental regulations, pany size, industrial sector and geographical location, internationalization, position in the value chain, s
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