Quality shipping and incentive schemes: From the perspective of the institutional economics

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-295

  Shinohara, Masato ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Incentive; Institutional economics; Opportunism; Quality shipping; Substandard shipping

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744458875     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.mel.9100138     Document Type: Article

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