The impact of sustainability on global logistics strategies: contradictory issues. In : The Paradoxes of Globalisation
BLANQUART ; CARBONE
Type de document
CHAPITRE D'OUVRAGE (CO)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
BLANQUART ; CARBONE
Résumé / Abstract
Sustainable development permeates every area of the corporation. Although the notion of sustainability is now widespread and focuses energies on environmental issues, it is weakened by numerous paradoxes. Some of these paradoxes are inherent in the notion of sustainability in general, regardless of which activities it is applied to. But others are specific to the implementation of sustainability in well-defined areas. It is the same for logistics , whose particular characteristics in the context of the globalisation of markets raise specific logical contradictions. The following sections deal with these various paradoxes in order: those which are specific to the principles of sustainable development, those linked to the way sustainability is handled in global logistics practices and finally those raised by the increasing complexity of the relations between actors in global chains. Our thinking revolves around one major question: is it possible to make minor modifications to global logistic strategies in the name of sustainability without fundamentally calling current models of production and consumption into question ? Lacking an immediate answer to this question, we propose to evaluate sustainability in the logistics field in a relative way, presenting the various possible solutions in relation to specific contexts.
Editeur
Palgrave Macmillan
