If an enterprise has green logistics awareness, then it can
be readily grasped that the enterprise may also need a
proactive green logistics strategy and green logistics
practices. As some authors have previously indicated,
green awareness is the key element of a green strategy.
López-Gamero et al. (2010) found that if environmental
strategies are not driven by legislation, but rather driven
by green awareness, their effect on environmental
management is significantly positive. Hart and Ahuja
(1996) demonstrated that firms with an early awareness
may be opting for more advanced environmental low
emissions strategies. Sarkis (2006) demonstrated that
enterprises that develop an early pollution-reducing
processing equipment strategy benefit from higher profit
growth than later followers. This implies that firms
implemented green awareness into better environmental
programs, and strategies will have better environmental
performance. These concepts allow for the formulation of
the following hypotheses: