Global Shipping in Small Nations [electronic resource] : Nordic Experiences after 1960 /
Tenold, S.editor.
Iversen, M. Jes.editor.
Lange, E.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Global Shipping in Small Nations: Nordic Experiences after 1960; 2 Boom, Crisis and Internationalized Revitalization: Norwegian Shipping; 3 'Knowing the Ropes': Capability Reconfiguration and Restructuring of the Danish Shipping Industry; 4 The Two Declines of Swedish Shipping; 5 Finnish Shipping - A Nordic Exception?; 6 Nordic Shipping: A Statistical Overview; 7 A Future for Nordic Shipping?; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Macroeconomics.
Economic history.
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Economic policy.
Industrial organization.
Economic growth.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Economic History.
Regional/Spatial Science.
Economic Policy.
Industrial Organization.
Economic Growth.