Global Shipping in Small Nations: Nordic Experiences After 1960

ISBN-13: 9781349333424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 237 str.

S. Tenold;M. Jes Iversen;E. Lange

Opis

This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization. The authors analyse political and institutional patterns alongside the various corporate responses to the many upheavals of global shipping.

Spis treści

Introduction; S.Tenold, Martin J.Iversen    E.Lange Boom, Crisis and Internationalised Revitalisation: Norwegian Shipping; S.Tenold 'Knowing the Ropes': Capability Reconfiguration and Restructuring of the Danish Shipping Industry; H.Sornn-Friese, R.T.Poulsen  & M.Iversen The Two Declines of Swedish Shipping; R.T.Poulsen, H.Sjögren  & T.T.Lennerfors Finnish Shipping – A Nordic Exception?; J.Ojala &  Y.Kaukianen A Future for Nordic Shipping?; V.Normann Nordic Shipping: A Statistical Overview; E.Ekberg

O autorze

STIG TENOLD Professor of Economic History at the Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen.

MARTIN JES IVERSEN Associate Professor at the Centre for Business History, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Academic co-ordinator of GLOBE, the tri-continental BA program between CBS, Kennan Flagler Business School, the University of North Carolina and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

EVEN LANGE Professor of Modern History at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the founder and former director of the Centre for Business History at the Norwegian School of Management.