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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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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges of living in the global and the local embeddedness of transnational corporations in the context of agriculture and food production in rural Europe.
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Locality and Community in the Politics of Local Economic Development
Kevin R. Cox,Andrew Mair +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of the local dependence of various actors is explored with a view to explaining local politics: some firms are locally dependent and form business coalitions to stimulate investment in their local economy.
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Between Fixity and Motion: Accumulation, Territorial Organization and the Historical Geography of Spatial Scales
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the implications of the contradiction between fixity and motion in the circulation of capital, between capital's necessary dependence on territory or place and its space-annihilating tendencies, for the production of spatial scale under capitalism.
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors described the world the box made and the Gridlock on the Docks and the Trucker's Trucker 36 and the Shippers' Revenge in New York's Port.
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Reconstructing urban regime theory : regulating urban politics in a global economy
TL;DR: Lauria and Waters as discussed by the authors discuss the relationship between regulation and local economic development in the context of urban government and propose a framework for the regulation of local government in urban areas.
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