H. Stevens's The Institutional Position of Seaports: An International PDF

By H. Stevens

ISBN-10: 0585353239

ISBN-13: 9780585353234

ISBN-10: 0792359798

ISBN-13: 9780792359791

The phenomenon of overseas seaport management is the topic of this booklet. As a Ph.D.-student on the Delft collage of expertise (period 1993 - 1997) I had the chance to strengthen and workout my pastime on an entire time base. the outcome was once a Ph.D.-dissertation which was once defended in December 1997. regrettably, those learn effects have been released in Dutch whereas nearly all of the interviewees and staff on this planet of foreign seaport management are English conversing humans. either for the explanation of excessive foreign relevance of the implications I felt the need to get this Ph.D.-research translated and released in English. With the superb aid of my promotor Prof.dr. W.G.M. Salet i discovered Prof.dr. H. van der Wusten ready to hide this examine on overseas seaport management within the Kluwer GeoJournal Library sequence. I thank Mr. Van der Wusten for giving me this chance. but additionally as a result of the amazing support of my present service provider 'Zeeland Seaports Authority' the investment for the interpretation turned in a short time attainable. I thank the coping with Director of Zeeland Seaports Authority, Mr. J.M.H.G. Philippen, and the industrial Director, Capt. J. Verkiel, for his or her curiosity and lovely assist in getting this learn translated. and naturally my honest thank you visit Katy Owen who truly made this dream come true.

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Chapter2 Control of Activities In the previous two sections we looked at how accountability is organised for economic regulation and various organisations respectively. Just as various organisations are found under economic regulation, so organisations can undertake various activities. In order to define the analytical framework more precisely, this section will examine the division of control among different sorts of activities. These concepts may be useful to the empirical analysis in describing the nature of concrete port activities.

By crossreferencing the two criteria we get four ideal types of activities or goods and/or services. 3. Classificationof Goods Chractcristics(Savas, 1987) Thus private activities can be distinguished which are characterised by individual consumption and the option of excluding consumption by others. In the best case, private goods are offered in competition so that the consumer has the opportunity to choose providers without incurring any penalties. It can also happen that there is reduced competition because the provider has a niche market.

2 TheoreticalModelof Control Relationsat OrganisationalLevel (adapted fromVickers, 1965). The above model and the terms used are rather abstract. Using the following examples, an attempt is made to clarify the line of reasoning and 32 Chapter 2 show how accountability is institutionalised by organisations. Consideration is also given to the question of where institutional efforts need to be made in order to safeguard external expectations (Vickers, 1965). In the case of a commercial market organisation, for example, the capital for running the enterprise is obtained from the shareholders.

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