Global shipping in small nations: Nordic experiences after 1960

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. STIG TENOLD Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and honorary research fellow at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich, UK. 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. EVAN 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. INDICE: 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 b A Nordic Exception?;' J.Ojala '&' Y.Kaukianen' - A Future for Nordic Shipping?; 'V.Normann - 'Nordic Shipping: A Statistical Overview;' E.Ekberg- '''

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29454-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 16/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés