Freight forwarder's intermediary role in multimodal transport chains : a social network approach

In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered "The Arc...

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Main Author: Schramm, Hans-Joachim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer , c2012
Series:Contributions to management science
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-350) 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Legal and functional perspective of freight forwarding in multimodal transport chains -- 3. New institutional economics, intermediation theory, and the intermediary perspective -- 4. Models of network structure and the network perspective -- 5. A closer look on contemporary social network analysis -- 6. Freight forwarder's personal network in multimodal transport chains : an empirical investigation -- 7. Final conclusions 
520 |a In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered "The Architect of Transport", but this intermediary role seems to be largely neglected in research to date. Therefore, relevant concepts from economic theory and economic sociology are employed to produce both an intermediary and a network perspective of freight forwarding in order to provide a better 
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650 0 |a Freight forwarders 
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