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100 1 _aSchramm, Hans-Joachim.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFreight Forwarder's Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains
_h[electronic resource] :
_bA Social Network Approach /
_cby Hans-Joachim Schramm.
264 1 _aHeidelberg :
_bPhysica-Verlag HD :
_bImprint: Physica,
_c2012.
300 _aXXVI, 350p. 41 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aContributions to Management Science,
_x1431-1941
505 0 _aLegal and Functional Perspective of Freight Forwarding in Multimodal Transport Chains -- New Industrial Economics, Intermediation Theory, and the Intermediary Perspective -- Models of network Structure and the Network Perspective -- A Closer Look on Contemporary Social Network Analysis -- Freight Forwarder's Personal Network in Multimodal Transport Chains: An Empirical Investigation.
520 _aIn this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered "The Architect of Transport", but this intermediary role seems to be largely neglected in research to date. Therefore, relevant concepts from economic theory and economic sociology are employed to produce both an intermediary and a network perspective of freight forwarding in order to provide a better understanding of this kind of transportation business. Furthermore, its intermediary role in such inherent network structures is explored by mapping relationship patterns in a stylized model framework applied to a questionnaire-based sample collected among freight forwarders engaged in such multimodal transport chains in Germany (especially from Hamburg, Bremen and Bremerhaven) as well as in Austria in 2003.
650 0 _aEconomics.
650 0 _aInternational economics.
650 0 _aBusiness planning.
650 1 4 _aEconomics/Management Science.
650 2 4 _aProduction/Logistics/Supply Chain Management.
650 2 4 _aInternational Economics.
650 2 4 _aOrganization/Planning.
650 2 4 _aBusiness/Management Science, general.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783790827743
830 0 _aContributions to Management Science,
_x1431-1941
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2775-0
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