Logistics environmental sustainability is a priority for practitioners and policymakers, but companies lack clarity about how to align it with strategic purposes. As this prevents them from coherently turning sustainability into action, the paper “How to align logistics environmental sustainability with corporate strategy?: an Italian perspective” (published on International journal of logistics research and applications, by Lorenzo Bruno Prataviera and Alessandro Creazza (LIUC) with Sara Perotti e Vasco Sanchez), focuses on how companies can align logistics environmental sustainability with corporate strategies.

The researchers involved 13 companies (6 LSPs and 7 shippers) to contextualize this phenomenon. Results highlight that companies seem more motivated by the need to comply with regulations or to protect their environmental reputation than by a genuine understanding of the actual need for sustainability.

A framework is proposed to foster the alignment of logistics environmental sustainability with corporate strategy, underpinned by five main dimensions: degree of awareness, degree of formalisation, measurement systems, governance and accountability, and budget allocation.