Freight Forwarder's Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains
In 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
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Hans-Joachim Schramm
Freight Forwarder’s Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains A Social Network Approach
Dr. Hans-Joachim Schramm Department of Global Business and Trade Institute for Transport and Logistics Management Nordbergstr. 15 1090 Vienna Austria [email protected]
Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extra.springer.com. ISSN 1431-1941 ISBN 978-3-7908-2774-3 e-ISBN 978-3-7908-2775-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-7908-2775-0 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011943881 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Physica-Verlag is a brand of Springer Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
This book sums up my research so far concerning the freight forwarding business in multimodal transport chains and was submitted successfully as a Doctoral Thesis at Dresden University of Technology. As research always comes along with at least some external support, acknowledgements are as follows. First, I express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kummer and my local examiner Prof. Dr. Knut Haase for their patience as the finishing of my thesis took unusually long. Second, thank you to Prof. Michael Browne, Prof. Dr. Herbert Kopfer, Prof. Dr. Herbert Kotzab, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang St¨olzle, Prof. Dr. Michael Essig and Prof. Lauri Ojala being among those delivering useful comments during the various stages of my work. Third, sincere thanks are given to my present and former colleagues from Dresden University of Technology, University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna and WU Wirtschaftsuniversit¨at Wien, especially Dipl.-Verkwirtsch. Nicole G¨ulle for raising a sample of Austrian freight forwarding companies engaged in air cargo operations as well as Dr. Dipl.-Verkwirtsch. Mirko Hoppe, MMag. Irene Sudy, Dipl.-Ing. Rainer P. Bogensperger and Dipl.-Buchhandelswirtin (FH) Astrid Fischer for suggestions for improvement while proof-reading the text. Furthermore, I owe some libraries where I spend hours doing desk research on my topic a debt of gratitude, especially t
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