Collective action regimes in seaport clusters: The case of the Lower Mississippi port cluster

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-186

  de Langen, Peter W ^a   Visser, Evert Jan ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clusters; Collection action problems; Collective action regimes; Governance; Mississippi; Seaports

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; PORT OPERATION; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15944414221     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2004.04.010     Document Type: Article

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