Author(s)

GLORIA JANETH MURILLO-AVIÑA, JOSUÉ AARÓN LÓPEZ-LEYVA, CARLOS SERGIO ROBLES-MEJÍA, SIALIA KARINA MELLINK-MÉNDEZ, DIANA ESTHER WOOLFOLK-RUIZ, ANA LUCÍA NEGRETE-ELIZONDO

Abstract

The analysis of logistics related to the core business of any company is an important task to improve corporate sustainability. More precisely, the concept of green logistics is related to corporate sustainability. In general, green logistics involves the sustainable management of tangible and intangible resources as a key activity of the products or services offered. Nevertheless, improving a company’s green logistics is an extremely complicated task without adequate tools to assess the baseline and initiate the continuous improvement process. In the same sense, even if there were evaluation tools for green logistics, unidisciplinary design would imply a superficial analysis of other disciplines involved in the problem. After the literature review, no studies were found that addressed the analysis and design of public tools for evaluating green logistics in a multidisciplinary way in companies as an important element for the creation of a regional sustainability indicator. In this way, this research proposes multidisciplinary dimensions and elements of green logistics that can be applied to companies in different economic sectors. In addition, an analysis of the political, social, environmental, and managerial implications of these dimensions and elements in the design of a public instrument for the evaluation of green logistics in companies is presented. Quantitative results of the internal and external validation of the proposed dimensions and elements are also presented. Finally, these results are important for the further development of the green logistics assessment tool in the industrial sector, as well as for contributing to the body of knowledge on green logistics from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Keywords

multidisciplinary analysis, green logistics, sustainability, regional indicator, freight transport