Analysis of relationship between operational performance and supply chain sustainability: а case of logistics service providers in Finland and Russia

Abstract

The main goal of this research paper is to explore the relationship between operational performance and supply chain sustainability metrics in case of Finnish and Russian road freight transportation companies. The research objectives of this paper is (1) to study the impact of operational performance measures on environmental company’s performance and vice versa; (2) to explore whether there is significant difference in operational and environmental performance between Finnish and Russian road freight transportation companies: (3) to develop a model that can be further used by management team for self-estimation on company’s performance in environmental and operational dimensions. The main result is the model that shows relationship between particular operational and environmental characteristics of the company’s performance. Significant difference between environmental and operational measures in Finnish and Russian road freight transportation companies was determined.