Green business for sustainable development and competitiveness: an overview of Turkish logistics industry

Competitiveness is a key issue for private companies. Logistics companies also operate under the pressure of competition. In order to deal with the challenging business atmosphere, private companies seek for new ways to provide a sustainable development strategy. Environmental concerns have an important place in the sustainable development strategies. They can be evaluated within the corporate social responsibility concept which may have an impact on the competitiveness ability of private companies. Especially for logistics companies, environmental issues are highly important. Therefore green policies have became strategic for them. Competitiveness levels of private companies may be affected by green policies as a result of regulations regarding environmental concerns.