Although the increasing interest toward environmental issues in the freight transport and logistics service sector, a comprehensive and update assessment of the existing literature is still missing. This paper aims to fill this gap through presenting the results of a systematic literature review of publications in the area of environmental sustainability in the third-party logistics service providers (3PLs) between the year 2000 and 2016. The review offers insight into the critical dimensions of green matters in transport and logistics service companies using an analytical framework based on the following five topic areas: influencing factors, green actions and the impact on performance, ICT tools supporting green actions, energy efficiency in road freight transport and shipper’s perspective and collaboration. The results indicate that, despite the published papers growth significantly from 2008 onward, some areas remains highly under-researched such as ICT and performance measurement. Several research gaps have been identified in each topic area and a set of propositions forming an agenda for future research directions has been suggested.
Environmental sustainability in third-party logistics service providers: A systematic literature review from 2000-2016
Evangelista P;Santoro L
;Thomas A
2018-01-01
Abstract
Although the increasing interest toward environmental issues in the freight transport and logistics service sector, a comprehensive and update assessment of the existing literature is still missing. This paper aims to fill this gap through presenting the results of a systematic literature review of publications in the area of environmental sustainability in the third-party logistics service providers (3PLs) between the year 2000 and 2016. The review offers insight into the critical dimensions of green matters in transport and logistics service companies using an analytical framework based on the following five topic areas: influencing factors, green actions and the impact on performance, ICT tools supporting green actions, energy efficiency in road freight transport and shipper’s perspective and collaboration. The results indicate that, despite the published papers growth significantly from 2008 onward, some areas remains highly under-researched such as ICT and performance measurement. Several research gaps have been identified in each topic area and a set of propositions forming an agenda for future research directions has been suggested.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
