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Political economy of port competition : institutional analyses of Rotterdam, Southern California and Dubai
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The article was published on 2007-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 37 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Port (computer networking) & Competition (economics).read more
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The end of history and the last man : kemenangan kapitalisme dn demokrasi liberal / oleh Francis Fukuyama, penerjemah M.H. Amrullah
TL;DR: Fukuyama's seminal work "The End of History and the Last Man" as discussed by the authors was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like, outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, and speculated what was going to come next.
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Port Governance Reforms in Diversified Institutional Frameworks: Generic Solutions, Implementation Asymmetries:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the recent corporatisation process of three seaports in Asia and Europe, focusing on whether the newly established seaport governance structures follow a path largely affected by the local/national institutional frameworks and the political traditions in place.
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Integrating world cities into production networks : the case of port cities
TL;DR: In this paper, the location patterns of firms that provide specialized advanced producer services (APS) to international commodity chains that move through seaports are analyzed and the authors conclude that while port-related APS activities predominantly follow the world city hierarchy, a number of port cities stand out because they act as nodes in global commodity flows and as centres of advanced services related to shipping and port activities.
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Introduction to The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
TL;DR: In this article, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston, and from that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible.
Institutional plasticity and path dependence in seaports : interactions between institutions, port governance reform and port authority routines
TL;DR: In this article, path dependence in seaport governance has been studied and a process of institutional stretching takes place when port authorities see a need to develop new capabilities and activities, gradually leading to a formalised governance reform but without breaking out of the existing path of development.
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Producing the Capacity to Govern in Global Sydney: A Multiscaled Account
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the social production of urban governance in Sydney, Australia, specifically examining the city's changing scalar context and scale politics, and suggest that scale-sensitive regime analyses can make important contributions to theoretical development concerning the multiscalar complexities of governance.
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Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority
TL;DR: The history of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is traced from the battles leading to its creation in 1921 through its conflicts with the railroads and its expansion to build bridges and tunnels for motor vehicles as discussed by the authors.
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