Companies can introduce various green logistics practices (GLPs) to reduce the logistics environmental impact. Several influencing factors within firms that could serve as barriers to, or enablers of, GLPs. However, less is known about the role of extra-firm stakeholders, even though these are crucial to operationalizing green logistics effectively.

This study “A call to action: a stakeholder analysis of green logistics practices”, published on The international journal of logistics management by Lorenzo Bruno Prataviera and Alessandro Creazza (LIUC) with Sara Perotti (Politecnico of Milan) provides a detailed stakeholder analysis of GLPs, contributing with a better understanding of how and why companies adopt GLPs.

It emphasizes the wide set of stakeholders involved and illustrates how different stakeholders impact on GLPs adoption by affecting a set of influencing factors. The study highlights important cascading effects among these factors, e.g., key economic factors are affected by external factors which also influence organizational and collaboration factors. Therefore, the study emphasizes how Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) and shippers can no longer address the adoption of GLPs as “focal companies”, but only as part of a “focal network of interconnected stakeholders”, all of them influencing GLPs adoption.