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Research On The Competitiveness Of International Shipping Enterprises

Posted on:2007-07-06Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360185496460Subject:Technical Economics and Management
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International shipping business-line has the attributes of high-risk, huge-investment, transnational-competition and strong-monopoly. With the increasing development of world economy-unify and shipping-liberalization, the competition between international shipping companies becomes more and more severity. Developed and developing shipping countries are both confronted with the situation that is how to dispute or share the world-shipping resources and how to adapt to the changes in international shipping market. The shipping enterprises in the condition of international shipping market competition, it is important to improve self-competitiveness, for making a living and development. International shipping companies' competitiveness is the basic for a country to form international shipping field competitiveness, and create key impact for a country's international competitiveness. Our country is experiencing key historical period from shipping big country to shipping great power, deeply researching international shipping companies competitiveness has become an important and stringent subject, and has important theory research value and realism direction meaning.The thesis mainly adopts the combination between criterion research and demonstration research, the cooperation between qualitative description and quantitative analysis, comprehensively using theory and method in related fields, such as competitive economics, shipping economics, statistics, maths, management and etc. The thesis establishes a research logical system from theory to practice, from abstract to concrete, from static state to dynamic state, in the aspect of system mechanism of international shipping companies' competitiveness, evaluation index and evaluation method of competitiveness, dynamic state management, in order to enrich the system of international shipping companies' competitiveness thesis research and decision-making method.The thesis contains seven chapters, chapter 1: Introduction, mainly introduces research background, research target, research method and research value of international shipping companies' competitiveness, meanwhile, determines the research frame; chapter 2: Literature summarization and the problems waiting for deeply research, this part looks back the theory and evaluation of companies' competitiveness at home and abroad, further, comments and describes the theory and evaluation of shipping companies' competitiveness. Aiming at the research actuality, the thesis points that the direction of research should be deeply outspreading. The above two chapters draw the main outline of research, the following discussion is on the bases of these two.Chapter 3: Systematic theory research of international shipping companies' competitiveness, provides the definition of international shipping companies' competitiveness, mainly analyzes its mechanism, puts forward companies' capability structure boundary, aiming at different shipping market structure, analyzes the attribute of companies' competitiveness boundary (weakness competitiveness boundary, semi-strength competitiveness boundary, strength competitiveness boundary), using systematic methodology, researches chaos structure, dissipation structure and organizing structure of international shipping companies' competitiveness, establishes static state and dynamic model of companies' competitiveness, puts SWOT analysis into use in the developing condition of our country's international shipping companies' competitiveness, in the perspective of incentive and innovation, points out the drive mechanism of companies competitiveness.Chapter4: Research on the evaluation of international shipping companies' competitiveness, this section puts forward the FIP model of international shipping companies' competitiveness, establishes corresponding evaluation index system, defines the attributes and calculations of indexes, combines impersonality method and subjective method, and adopts combination evaluation method of companies' competitiveness.Chapter5: Positive research on international shipping companies' competitiveness, the part collects competitiveness index data of liner ship that ranks the top 15 of international carrier power, adopts the evaluation method established in chapter 4, and implements the concrete evaluation.Chapter6: Research on dynamic management in competitiveness of international shipping enterprises, the part establishes the competitiveness -forecast model, elaborates the combined competitiveness of shipping-alliance and its strategic objective and mechanism, put forwards vertical and horizontal competitiveness, elaborates the decision method to select alliance partners, provides the game model for international shipping merge, discusses multi-stage investment decision based on real options and dynamic competitive strategies.Chapter 7: Summarizations and prospects, the part summarizes the main research work and results, and points out the weakness and further research direction.The main innovation shows the following aspects:(1) The thesis systematically conducts the theory research of international shipping companies' competitiveness, establishes the systematical theory research system of international shipping companies' competitiveness.(2) The thesis puts forward the FIP model of international shipping companies' evaluation, scientifically establishes the evaluation index system of companies' competitiveness.(3) The thesis adopts the evaluation method of international shipping companies' competitiveness, and conducts mobilization research by means of positive analysis.(4) The thesis systematically researches the dynamic management of international shipping companies' competitiveness, enriches the strategic management of international shipping companies' competitiveness.
Keywords/Search Tags:international shipping enterprises, competitiveness, theory, evaluation, dynamic management
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