The Governance of Global Supply Chains

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

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