Fifty years of organisational change in container shipping: Regional shift and the role of family firms

GeoJournal

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-34

  Slack, Brian ^a   Frémont, Antoine ^b  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

Author keywords

Company organization; Container shipping; Regional differences

Indexed keywords

CIVIL AVIATION; COMPETITION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC UTILITIES;

CAPITAL INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES; COMPANY ORGANIZATION; CONTAINER SHIPPING; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; TRAFFIC GROWTH;

CONTAINERS;

COMPETITIVENESS; CONTAINER SHIP; CONTAINERIZATION; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; REGIONAL ECONOMY; SHIPPING; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; VESSEL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM;

EID: 58649092185     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-008-9212-2     Document Type: Article

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