Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Governance of
Global Supply Chains
- Project Proposal
- Hong Kong Port's role as a Global
Supply Chain Management Centre
- Research Questions
- How and to what extent are LSPs capable
of managing global supply chains?
- Questions of power and governance in GPNs
- Rise of large 3PLs and their importance across GPNs
- What are the implications for acquisition
and mergers between LSPs on the
effectiveness of the Port of Hong Kong
- Questions of regional economic development
- Methodology
- Content analysis of secondary data
- Policy documents
- Hong Kong Trade and Development Council
- Hong Kong Logistcs Development Council
- Annual business reports
- Interviews with LSPs
- Wang and Cheng, 2010: 5 categories of LSPs
- Key literature
- Coe, 2014
- Wang and Cheng, 2010
- Magretta, 1998
- Nor, 2011
- Rationale
- Shift to 3PL
- Competition
- acquisition and merger
- Value added services
- Need to command longer and
larger segments of supply chains
- Competition from nearby ports
- Lower operational costs at
Shanghai and Guangzhou
- Decline in growth of Hong Kong Port
- Shifting role
- New international business climate
- JIT systems
- High volume, time sensitive
- Context of increasingly
global production chains
- Integration of chains into
global production systems
- Management and control
- Ethics and Risks
- Interviews
- Working alone
- Mitigation
- Avoid working at night
- Tell someone where I am going
- Visiting port areas?
- Mitigation
- Abide to company's
code of health and safety
- Working abroad
- Carry out international year abroad risk assessment