Global Shipping in Small Nations - Nordic Experiences After 1960

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: E. Tenold Lange
• Assisted by: M. Jes Iversen (Editor), Jes Iversen (Editor), M Jes Iversen (Editor), E Lange (Editor), E. Lange (Editor), S. Tenold (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349333424
• ISBN: 978-1-349-33342-4
• No. of pages: 251
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; B, Economic Policy, macroeconomics, Economic history, economic growth, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Industrial Organization, Regional and Spatial Economics, regional economics, Monetary Economics, Management science, Economics of industrial organisation, Spatial economics, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, crisis;globalization;restructuring;shipping