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Political economy of port competition : institutional analyses of Rotterdam, Southern California and Dubai

01 Jan 2007-

About: 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).

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The end of history and the last man : kemenangan kapitalisme dn demokrasi liberal / oleh Francis Fukuyama, penerjemah M.H. Amrullah

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Francis Fukuyama

01 Jan 2003

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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Abstract: 20th anniversary edition of "The End of History and the Last Man", a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of "The Origins of Political Order". With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. "The End of History and the Last Man" was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like. Boldly outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened and then speculated what was going to come next. Tackling religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes and war, "The End of History and the Last Man" remains a compelling work to this day, provoking argument and debate among its readers. "Awesome ...a landmark ...profoundly realistic and important ...supremely timely and cogent ...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." (George Gilder, "The Washington"). Post Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952. His work includes "America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy" and "After the Neo Cons: Where the Right went Wrong". He now lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and children, where he also works as a part time photographer.

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Port Governance Reforms in Diversified Institutional Frameworks: Generic Solutions, Implementation Asymmetries:

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Adolf K.Y. Ng¹, Athanasios A. Pallis²•Institutions (2)

Hong Kong Polytechnic University¹, University of the Aegean²

01 Jan 2010-Environment and Planning A

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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Abstract: Bringing in neo-institutional perspectives, this paper investigates the recent corporatisation process of three seaports in Asia and Europe. We focus 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. Findings confirm that path-dependent decisions largely preserve the institutional characteristics of local/national systems, resulting in implementation asymmetries when different countries seek generic governance solutions.

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...Given calls for more balanced regional development (see Jacobs, 2007b), the government also ensured that the PoR would not gain significant competitive advantage due to public financing....
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...…line with the transformation of Singapore (Airriess, 2001a) and Dubai (Jacobs and Hall, 2007) to global hubs, the comparative study of ports in South California, Dubai, and Rotterdam by Jacobs (2007a; 2007b), and Lee et al's (2008) remarks on the importance of contextual traditions for port models....
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...…representatives, the national government pushed a (trans)port expansion agenda (the Main-port Agenda) against the reservations of city authorities who were less keen on attracting more business within the port's premises through too drastic port governance reform (for details, see Jacobs, 2007b)....
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...It is only recently that scholars (ie Hall, 2003; Jacobs, 2007a; Jacobs and Hall, 2007) have focused on a concept previously applied in the context of transportation (Heritier et al, 2001) and maritime (Pallis, 2002) policy evolution: institutional settings do matter....
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...…political traditions and relevant frameworks on port governance between (or within) nations has only recently attracted academic interest, with Airriess (2001a), Hall (2003), Jacobs (2007a), and Jacobs and Hall (2007) examining Singapore, Baltimore, Dubai, and Los Angeles/Long Beach, respectively....
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Integrating world cities into production networks : the case of port cities

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Wouter Jacobs¹, César Ducruet², Peter W. de Langen³•Institutions (3)

Erasmus University Rotterdam¹, University of Paris², Eindhoven University of Technology³

01 Jan 2010-Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs

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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Abstract: In this article we analyse the location patterns of firms that provide specialized advanced producer services (APS) to international commodity chains that move through seaports. Such activities can take place in world cities or in port cities. The analysis of APS location patterns in port cities provides a good opportunity to integrate the study of world cities into the framework of Global Production Networks. Based upon our empirical findings, we 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. Based on these empirical findings we address future avenues of research.

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...However, some cities that did not rank high in the GaWC research, such as Houston, Rotterdam, Panama City, Piraeus, Hamburg and Antwerp, clearly emerge as prime locations....
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...Second, ports are important transport nodes in the global supply chains of specific commodities in which value is created (Jacobs 2007; Robinson 2002; Wang et al. 2007) but have hardly been analysed from the GCC-GVC-GPN perspective....
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...Institutionally, the devolution of local government control on the port‟s management (see Brooks and Cullinane 2007; Jacobs 2007) further eroded port-city relationships....
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Introduction to The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

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Marc Levinson

01 Jan 2008-Research Papers in Economics

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.

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Abstract: In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.

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Institutional plasticity and path dependence in seaports : interactions between institutions, port governance reform and port authority routines

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Wouter Jacobs, P. De Langen, Theo Notteboom

01 Jan 2011

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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Abstract: This paper deals with path dependence in seaport governance. A central notion in this respect is lock-in. Economic geographers have recently started to reconsider the deterministic perspective on lock-in and developed the concept of institutional plasticity. Such plasticity is the result of actions of actors to purposefully ‘recombine and convert or reinterpret institutions for their new objectives or transfer institutions to different contexts’ (Strambach, 2010). This concept is applied to seaports, where so far, path dependence and lock-in have not been studied in detail. Our main conclusion is that a process of institutional stretching takes place when port authorities see a need to develop new capabilities and activities. In this process new layers are added to existing arrangements, gradually leading to a formalised governance reform but without breaking out of the existing path of development.

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The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger

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Benoît Demil, Xavier Lecocq

01 Jan 2006-Research Papers in Economics

TL;DR: M@n@gement as discussed by the authors is a double-blind reviewed journal where articles are published in their original language as soon as they have been accepted, without securing permission, for teaching, research, or library reserve.

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Abstract: M@n@gement is a double-blind reviewed journal where articles are published in their original language as soon as they have been accepted. Copies of this article can be made free of charge and without securing permission, for purposes of teaching, research, or library reserve. Consent to other kinds of copying, such as that for creating new works, or for resale, must be obtained from both the journal editor(s) and the author(s).

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"Political economy of port competiti..." refers background in this paper

...Up till the 1980s these shipping conferences were exempted from national anti-trust legislation, and in many cases non-conference members were prohibited by national governments from competing on trade routes (Levinson, 2006)....
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...From here, the toys are sent to local franchised shops of the American-based toy-company in Strasbourg, Basel and Stuttgart (cf. Levinson, 2006, for a similar example)....
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Economic Sociologies in Space

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Jamie Peck¹•Institutions (1)

University of Wisconsin-Madison¹

16 Feb 2009-Economic Geography

TL;DR: The authors argues for a more broadly based and purposive conversation with various currents within social-constructivist and macroeconomic sociology, which, in turn, calls for a full-blooded critique of market relations and analytics and a more militant attitude toward economic orthodoxies.

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Abstract: How might economic geography (re)position itself within the interdisciplinary field of heterodox economics? Reflecting on this question, this article offers a critical assessment of the “New Economic Sociology,” making the case for moving beyond the limited confines of the networks-and-embeddedness paradigm. More specifically, it argues for a more broadly based and purposive conversation with various currents within social-constructivist and macroeconomic sociology, which, in turn, calls for a more full-blooded critique of market relations and analytics and a more militant attitude toward economic orthodoxies. The promise of such a conversation, strategically focused on the simultaneously social and geographic constitution of economic relations, is an emboldened economic geography with a more persuasive voice in the field of heterodox economic studies.

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"Political economy of port competiti..." refers background in this paper

...For that manner we should be sensitive to the role of the state and its own scalar structure in the territorial organization of economic governance (Macleod, 2001; Painter, 2000; Brenner 1998)....
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...In this respect, the Emirate of Dubai can be best understood as an autocratic development state (Painter, 2000), comparable to places such as Singapore and Taiwan....
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Governing capitalist economies : performance and control of economic sectors

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J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Philippe C. Schmitter, Wolfgang Streeck

01 Sep 1994-Social Forces

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of the coordination and control of industries in North America, Japan, and Western Europe is presented, showing that tightly controlled sectors outperform their less-regulated counterparts in the world economy.

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Abstract: This comparative analysis of of the coordination and control of industries in North America, Japan, and Western Europe challenges neo-classical economists' assumptions about the efficaciousness of market mechanisms as a means of enhancing economic performance. The authors also explore variation in state policies in the governance of internationally competitive industries (automobiles, chemicals, consumer electronics, and steel, for example) and demonstrate how variation in state policies influences the economic performance of industrial sectors. The authors argue that tightly controlled sectors outperform their less-regulated counterparts in the world economy.

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...In general terms, an economic governance system can then be defined as “the totality of institutional arrangements - including rules and rule-making agents - that regulate transactions inside and across the boundaries of an economic system” (Hollingsworth et al 1994, p.5)....
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...25 Krips The regulation of economic sectors is, in turn, affected by national circumstances (Hollingsworth et al 1994)....
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...Moreover, sectors have specific forms of co-ordination in which organizations like business associations and labor unions play a prominent role, from the local to the global level (Hollingsworth et al 1994, Henderson et al 2002)....
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...The sector provides an excellent example of ‘nestedness’ of institutions between spatial levels (Hollingsworth et al, 1994) varying from international free trade agreements to local land use plans and pattern of property rights....
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...Regulation takes place not only along spatial-territorial lines, but also within certain functional-economic sectors (Hollingsworth et al 1994)....
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Reconstructing an urban and regional political economy: on the state, politics, scale, and explanation

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Gordon Macleod¹, Mark Goodwin¹•Institutions (1)

Aberystwyth University¹

01 Aug 1999-Political Geography

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a number of now fashionable institutionally focused accounts of urban and regional political economy often begin at a point that is analytically flawed (or at least partial) in that the institutional ensembles themselves, whether analyzed as an urban regime, regional thickness or a local regulatory mode, are automatically assumed to be a pre-given part of the explanation.

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...The concept of the growth machine has however its analytical shortcomings, which can be attributed to the concept’s epistemological origins and North American ethnocentric propositions (MacLeod & Goodwin 1999)....
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...In addition, Regulation Theory in its original connotation and its ontological focus on the nation-state ignores or neglects the governance practices and the role of agencies at the sub-national level (Macleod & Goodwin 1999, p.706)....
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...The latter has been described as the ‘institutional turn’ (Amin 1999; Martin 2000; MacLeod 2001; MacLeod & Goodwin 1999, Boschma & Frenken 2006)....
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...The uncritical application of the concept of institutional thickness is not unproblematic (cf. Coe et al 2004, MacLeod & Goodwin 1999, MacLeod 2001, Martin 2000, Amin 2001, Lagendijk 2006)....
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...Now there is a tendency to broaden the scope to other types of strategies, such as attracting external firms, business support, cluster development, and regulatory issues with environmental and social dimensions (Jonas and Gibbs 2003; MacLeod and Goodwin 1999; Oinas 2000)....
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Geographers and ‘globalization’: (yet) another missed boat?

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Peter Dicken¹•Institutions (1)

University of Manchester¹

01 Mar 2004-Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore, in the context of ongoing globalization debates, the bases of this undesirable situation and to consider what might be done to redress it in ways that could both enhance intra-and inter-disciplinarity and also make a contribution towards building a better world.

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Abstract: Over the years, geographers have developed a disturbing – even dysfunctional – habit of missing out on important intellectual and politically significant debates, even those in which geographers would seem to have a major role to play. The syndrome of processes currently bundled together within the term ‘globalization’ is intrinsically geographical, as are the outcomes of such processes. Yet, once again, it seems, we are not, as a discipline, centrally involved in what are clearly very ‘big issues’ indeed. The purpose of this paper is to explore, in the context of ongoing globalization debates, the bases of this undesirable situation and to consider what might be done to redress it in ways that could both enhance intra- and interdisciplinarity and also make a contribution towards building a better world.

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...Indeed as indicated by critical scholars (Coe et al, 2004, Dicken 2004), globalization is something which is to be explained and is not something which explains....
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...Governance contexts at any given scale should therefore be viewed as conceptualized in figure 2.2 (cf. Dicken, 2004)....
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...The processes of embeddedness in time and space form the core within the GPNperspective for the analysis of economic-geographical globalization as conceptualized in figure 2.2 (cf. Dicken 2004)....
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...…the debate has broadened by taking account of organizational and sociological work which sheds more light on the development of markets, production chains and sectors (Dicken 2004; Peck 2005, Coe et al 2004, Henderson et al 2002), and by a renewed interest in the role of the state (MacLeod 2001)....
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