Impact of Green Logistics Integration in Construction Industry: A Case of Construction Industry of Twin Cities of Pakistan

Abstract

This study has focused mainly on investigating the impact of green logistics integration on logistics performance. This study has considered sustainable warehousing, sustainable purchasing, sustainable transportation and sustainable reverse logistics as the independent variables. Whereas, logistics performance has been considered as the dependent variable in this study. However, this study has finalized construction industry of twin cities of Pakistan to testify the relationship between variables mentioned above. The major emphasis in this study has been on assessing the relationship between sustainable warehousing, sustainable purchasing, sustainable transportation and sustainable reverse logistics (independent variables) and logistics performance (dependent variable) in construction industry of twin cities of Pakistan. To prove this relationship, a survey has been conducted through an adopted structured questionnaire regarding this literature, in which supply chain members working for construction industry of twin cities of Pakistan, have been requested to share their experiences by filling the questionnaires. Then, to identify the results on data gathered from the respondents, statistical instruments have been used. Some of the statistical instruments used in this study includes descriptive frequencies, reliability, correlation, regression, etc. Results derived through statistical instruments have shown that there exists a significant positive relationship between sustainable warehousing, sustainable purchasing, sustainable transportation and sustainable reverse logistics (independent variables) and logistics performance (dependent variable) in construction industry of twin cities of Pakistan