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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schramm, Hans-Joachim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer , c2012
Series:Contributions to management science
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Table of Contents:
  • 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