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Shipping Strategy: Innovating for Success (9780521761499) By Peter Lorange

Shipping Strategy: Innovating for Success
  • Title: Shipping Strategy: Innovating for Success
  • Author: Peter Lorange
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521761499
  • Published: July 2009
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Pages: 294
  • Price:   United Kingdom   USA
Description
  • Draws upon authors unique experience as an innovator in the worlds of academia and shipping, he shows how companies can adapt to a rapidly changing world of maritime business by developing future strategies for success, including specialization and Innovation
  • Identifies the critical success factors in this rapidly-evolving sector
  • Unique insight into every dimension of the shipping industry
  • Bridges the gap between academic analysis and practical management
  • Communicating in a very concrete and practical terms, author shows how the complex global business environment can be transformed on the basis of successful development of focused strategies
Author Bio

Peter Lorange - Norwegian economist and President and owner of the Lorange Institute of Business Zürich. Previousely been President of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and President of the Norwegian School of Management. Taught at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and MIT Sloan School of Management.

Contents
  • List of exhibits
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. World Shipping: The Context

  • Drivers of change in the shipping industry
  • Major shipping markets
  • Shipping freight rates
  • Shipping industry clusters
  • Part II. Strategic Archetypes in Shipping

  • Specialized strategies
  • Owning steel
  • Using steel
  • Operating steel
  • Innovating around steel
  • Part III. The Firm's Portfolio Strategy

  • Portfolio management
  • Risk and revenue management
  • Part IV. In Conclusion

  • Two unique issues in shipping - family and governance
  • In the end … a question of management capabilities
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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  • Shipping Company Strategies: Global Management under Turbulent Conditions
  • New Vision for Management Education: Leadership Challenges

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