Sustainable port clusters and economic development : building competitiveness through clustering of spatially dispersed supply chains
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Sustainable port clusters and economic development : building competitiveness through clustering of spatially dispersed supply chains
(Palgrave studies in maritime economics)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2018
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book belongs to the Port Economics and Global Supply Chain Management strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series, commissioned by Hercules Haralambides.
This book addresses the strategic alignment between port authorities and their supply chain partners, with a focus on governance challenges. Many port (authority) managers are engaged in efforts to improve their strategic alignment with business partners in their proximate geographic region, yet the economic objectives pursued can vary widely. These objectives can include improvements in port competitiveness and stability of traffic flows, as well as better access to scarce resources such as land and capital, or simply more control over the logistics chain. Using various Benelux seaports as case studies, the authors of this volume show that improving strategic alignment can involve a wide variety of different governance choices, ranging from top-down to bottom-up alliance formation, from project-driven to multi-activity collaboration, and from long-term contracting to full-fledged mergers.
This book with state-of-the-art insight on modern port governance will be of interest to port managers around the globe, as well as to lecturers and students in maritime educational programs.
Chapter 4 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Co-Orchestrating Sustainable Port Ecosystems- Elvira Haezendonck and Alain Verbeke
2. A new governance perspective on port-hinterland relationships: the port hinterland impact (phi) matrix- Elvira Haezendonck, Michael Dooms and Alain Verbeke
3. The persistent relevance of trans border (focal) regions: the case of the European blue banana- Paul Brugman and Alain Verbeke
4. Integrated ports clusters and competitive advantage in an extended resource pool for the Antwerp Seaport- Mychal Langenus and Elvira Haezendonck
5. The impact of clusters on firms' environmental strategies: case study of Antwerp's chemical cluster- Tim Jans and Elvira Haezendonck
6. The impact of collaboration on green competitive advantage in Europe's largest petrochemical cluster- Tim Jans and Elvira Haezendonck
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