How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

Historically, management theory has ignored the constraints imposed by the biophysical (natural) environment. Building upon resource-based theory, this article attempts to fill this void by proposing a natural-resource-based view of the firm—a theory of competitive advantage based upon the firm's relationship to the natural environment. It is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development. Propositions are advanced for each of these strategies regarding key resource requirements and their contributions to sustained competitive advantage.

A natural resource-based view of the firm

The market environment in which ports operate has changed dramatically, and this continuous process of change raises questions on the role of port authorities. This paper discusses the impact of some structural changes in international trade, transport and shipping on strategic and operational issues in the framework of port management. The central hypothesis put forward is that a successful port (authority), like a successful actor, must be prepared to constantly adopt new roles in order to cope with the changing market environment. The content and strategic scope of these new roles are highlighted, especially with regard to the European container port system.

Structural changes in logistics: how will port authorities face the challenge?

Stakeholder management studies in mega construction projects: A review and future directions

Review of Studies on the Public–Private Partnerships (PPP) for Infrastructure Projects

Stakeholder management and path dependence in large-scale transport infrastructure development: the port of Antwerp case (1960–2010)

Essays on Strategy Analysis for Seaports

This article aims to identify empirically the most important location advantages determining the port of Antwerp's competitive position for containers and conventional cargo as compared to its main rivals in the Hamburg-Le Havre range. A conceptual framework is developed for analysing the competitiveness of seaports, based on an extended version of Porter's ‘diamond’ approach. This framework is tested through a large scale survey with port operators and experts. This article suggests that the port of Antwerp largely benefits from the superstructure used by forwarders, the flexibility and the productivity of its dockworkers and its forwarders. The analysis also identifies three key disadvantages, namely the weak competitiveness of pilotage and inland navigation service providers in the port of Antwerp, and the limited maritime accessibility of the port. The introduction of the extended ‘diamond’ framework allows the identification of a set of strengths and weaknesses characterising a specific port cluster and can thus contribute substantially to the development of port policy and management.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fijme.2000.8.pdf

The Competitive Advantage of Seaports

Knowledge transfers and project-based learning in large scale infrastructure development projects: an exploratory and comparative ex-post analysis

https://www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/Uploads/2013/5/OESO-rapport.pdf

Elvira Haezendonck

Papers

Stakeholder management and path dependence in large-scale transport infrastructure development: the port of Antwerp case (1960–2010)

Essays on Strategy Analysis for Seaports

The Competitive Advantage of Seaports

Knowledge transfers and project-based learning in large scale infrastructure development projects: an exploratory and comparative ex-post analysis

The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: