Port marketing from a multidisciplinary perspective: A systematic literature review and lexicometric analysis

Tibor Mandják (tmandjak@em-normandie.fr), Alexandre Lavissière, Julian Hofmann (jhofmann@em-normandie.fr), Yann Bouchery, Mary-Catherine Lavissière (marycatherine.lavissiere@univ-nantes.fr), Olivier Faury (ofaury@em-normandie.fr) and Romain Sohier (romainsohier@yahoo.fr)
Additional contact information
Tibor Mandják: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School
Alexandre Lavissière: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School
Julian Hofmann: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School
Yann Bouchery: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School
Mary-Catherine Lavissière: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School
Olivier Faury: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School
Romain Sohier: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This paper aims at a systematic analysis of previous academic research on port marketing. First, we posit that port marketing is multidisciplinary by essence, and we analyze whether our assumption is reflected in the academic literature. Second, this paper aims at identifying the theoretical foundations of port marketing in the academic literature.With these two objectives in mind,we first conduct a large systematic literature review, and we identify 369 relevant academic publications over the last 40 years. Second, we implement an automated content analysis – a lexicometric analysis – on the 369 identified articles dealing with port- and marketing- related topics to analyze whether a conceptual field linking port and marketing appears in the literature. Despite the large existing academic research dealing with port marketing, our results do not confirm the expected multidisciplinary embodiment of port marketing (e.g., involving combined work done by researchers from both (per se) independent fields). Hence, considering (theoretical) concepts from the domain of marketing management research might leverage further research on the value creation done by ports. Moreover, our lexicometric analysis high lights the lack of a clear theoretical foundation of port marketing as a holistic concept. We conclude in proposing a pathway towards such a framework and outline specific topics for further research to foster such a holistic port marketing concept.

Keywords: Port marketing; Multidisciplinary research; Business-to-business marketing; Lexicometric analysis; Systematic literature review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Published in Transport Policy, 2019, ⟨10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.11.011⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02062145

DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.11.011

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD (hal@ccsd.cnrs.fr).