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" Container port production and economic efficiency / "
Tengfei Wang, Kevin Cullinane, and Dong-Wook Song.
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BL
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1011148
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b765518
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Wang, Tengfei.
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Container port production and economic efficiency /\ Tengfei Wang, Kevin Cullinane, and Dong-Wook Song.
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Basingstoke, Hampshire, England ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2005.
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xviii, 189 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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023050597X
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: 1403947724
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: 9780230505971
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: 9781403947727
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and index.
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The importance of the container port industry -- Performance measurement, productivity and efficiency -- Problem statement -- Objectives -- Organisation of the book -- The economic theory of container port production -- The economic functions of ports and their evolution -- The container port industry: the challenge of complexity -- The challenge from other market players -- Traditional theories of industrial market structure -- Port competition -- Alternative approaches to efficiency measurement -- Background -- Notation and symbols used -- Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- Free Disposal Hull (FDH) analysis -- Econometric approaches using cross-sectional data -- Econometric approaches using panel data -- Empirical comparisons of alternative approaches to efficiency estimation -- Performance measurement and efficiency analysis in the container port industry -- Model specification and data -- A procedure for efficiency measurement -- Port objectives -- Definition of variables -- Model specification -- Data collection -- Empirical results and analysis -- Cross-sectional data analysis -- Panel data analysis -- A theory of container port production and its empirical validation -- Testing the hypotheses -- Conclusions and further research -- A summary of major research contributions -- Recommendations for further research.
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"This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the container port production process. It goes on to describe the different possible methods for assessing relative efficiency and applies these methods to some of the world's largest container ports. The results are analysed in relation not only to the possible implications for port management and practice, but also for national economic and ports policies."--BOOK JACKET.
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Container terminals-- Cost effectiveness.
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Container terminals-- Economic aspects.
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Container terminals-- Management.
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Unitized cargo systems-- Management.
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Containerschifffahrt.
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Globalisierung.
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Seehafen.
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Wirtschaftlichkeit.
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Containervervoer.
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Efficiëntie.
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Havens.
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387.1/64/068
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HE551.W36 2005
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83.72bcl
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U656.106clc
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Cullinane, Kevin.
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Song, Dong-Wook.
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