Cognizance on green logistics in improving sustainability towards society 5.0

Abstract

Recently, there is an increased focus in the matter of improving sustainability. This matter is also becoming a world agenda in formulating global goals blueprint known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by the year 2030. This agenda, includes the implementation of green logistics in improving a countries sustainability. There are very limited studies in this subject area due to the lack of awareness of this issue, especially in Malaysia. This research aims to identify the level of economic performance awareness, environmental performance awareness, and organizational performance awareness towards improving the sustainability of green logistics in the Malaysian context to enrich the current findings. The sample was collected via a convenience survey using a structured questionnaire. Data of 387 respondents throughout Malaysia were analyzed using frequency, descriptive and correlation analysis via IBM SPSS Statistics. The main findings concluded a high positive correlation among economic performance awareness, environmental performance awareness and organizational performance awareness towards improving the sustainability of green logistics. The nature of this study is crucial to the government and policymakers in the development of corporate strategies to implement green logistics plans in improving sustainability in achieving Society 5.0.