Vernetzungsunternehmen der Weltwirtschaft: Zur Bedeutung räumlicher Nähe bei der Internationalisierung von Luftfrachtspeditionen

Neiberger Cordula
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ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 2007, vol. 51, issue 1, 124-136

Abstract: Network enterprises of the global economy? The role of proximity for the internationalisation of air freight forwarders. Customer requirements, new technologies and the deregulation and liberalisation measures of the last 15 years have had a significant influence on increasing globalization of the air freight forwarding industry. On the basis of empirical studies of the airports Frankfurt am Main/Germany and Amsterdam/The Netherlands, the study examines the impact of embeddedness of foreign companies in regional networks. It will be shown, that most of the companies do not need to be embedded in foreign networks, because of the global extension of the costumers and a high degree of organizational standardization. In fact the example of international cooperation among medium sized airfreight forwarders of different countries rather shows that global networks can be linked successfully, independent from the regional level.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1515/zfw.2007.0009

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