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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer ,
c2012
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| 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