Sustainable Firm Performance of Logistics Service Providers along Maritime Supply Chain
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Aims and Research Concept
- (1)
- What are the decisive components for the sustainability performance of LSPs?
- (2)
- Which capabilities can be used as sustainability-oriented indicators?
3. An Overview of Sustainability Frameworks
4. Evidence-Based Actions on How to Enhance Performance
- perform* OR efficien* OR productiv* OR effective*
- logist* OR suppl* OR transp*.
5. Concluding Remarks
- Sustainability is considered in maritime logistics. However, there is less accordance in terms of what to focus on for LSPs if they address the outlined sustainability frameworks. Furthermore, all non-UN-frameworks lack in addressing and linking to SDGs. No sustainability framework offers a minimum list on which criteria for each sustainability dimension to focus on for LSPs.
- The positive influence of considering sustainability is confirmed in the selected quantitative studies showing the collected evidence to analyze the empirical data about LSP in advanced economies. The evidence-based influence of considering environmental and social dimensions of sustainability is underrepresented in qualitative and quantitative studies. The identified focus areas for each sustainability dimension in the literature differ from those of sustainability frameworks.
- The convergence between quantitative and qualitative studies in terms of the identified components of performance is high. The points of interface of qualitative and quantitative studies are components of performance and the proposed metrics. Different aspects of the same topic (points of unexplained divergence) occur since quantitative studies test the effects of capabilities on performance, while qualitative studies track the relations between performance components.
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Chicago/Turabian StyleDovbischuk, Irina. 2021. "Sustainable Firm Performance of Logistics Service Providers along Maritime Supply Chain" Sustainability 13, no. 14: 8040. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148040