1、1外文翻譯原文WhatconditionssupplychainstrategiesofptsThecaseofDubaiMaterialSource:SpringerScienceAuth:WouterJacobsAEPeterV.HallAbstractRecentacademicdebatesaboutptcompetitionhavecenteredonthestrategicresponsesofptauthitiesoper

2、atsmanagersownerstotheemergenceofglobalsupplychains.Thecompetitiveperfmanceofaptauthityoperatgiventheriseoftheintegratedlogisticssectdependsincreasinglyonitsstrategicrelationshiptothesesupplychainsratherlessontraditional

3、ptcompetitionfactssuchashinterlsizephysicalinfrastructure.Howevertherearefewempiricalstudiesinvestigatingthedegreetowhichparticularptactsarecapableofingthemselvesintoglobalsupplychains.Inthisarticleweaskwhatfactsconditio

4、nthesupplychainstrategiesofptacts.Wehypothesizethatthestrategicsupplychainchoicesofaptauthityoperatareconditionedbytheterritializedinstitutionalframewkinwhichthedominantactsinaptoperate.Weapplytheseinsightsthroughacasest

5、udyofthetransfmationofDubaiPtAuthitytheriseofDubaiPtsWld(DPW).KeywdsSupplychainsStrategyDubaiPtsStructureofprovisionIntroductionTheriseofglobalproductionwks(GPN)hasbeenaccompaniedbytheemergenceofanewclassofactontheglobal

6、economicstagetheglobaltransptationlogisticsoperatingfirm(Dicken2003).Byvirtueoftheirpowertoganizecodinateevenshapedistributionsystemsthatlinksitesofglobalproductionconsumptiontheseairlinesshippinglineslogisticsproviderso

7、theractsareattractingconsiderableinterestamongeconomictransptationgeographers(Halletal.2006HesseRodrigue2006).Oneplacewherethepowerinfluencelimitationsofthenewclassofglobalactsareclearlyon3shipperscarriersptoperatspublic

8、authities.Inturnastheseactsprovidecriticallogisticalservicesptsbecomesitesatwhichglobalsupplychainsmaybecometerritiallyembedded.Ourhypothesisisthatthenatureoftheterritialrelationsoftheptconditionsthesupplychainstrategyof

9、keydominantptactsconsequentlythept’sabilitytobecomeembeddedinglobalsupplychains.InmakingthisargumentwefollowtherelationalperspectiveofHendersonetal.(2002)whorecognizethatGlobalProductionwks(GPN)arenotmerelylocatedinparti

10、cularplaces.InsteadGPNsbecometerritiallyembeddedinthesensethattheyareenabledconstrainedbytheprevailingeconomicactivitiessocialdynamicsthatalreadyexitsinthoseplaces:“Fromadevelopmentpointviewthenthemodeofterritialembedded

11、nessthedegreeofaGPNfirm’scommitmenttoparticularlocationisanimptantfactfvaluecreationenhancementcapture”(Hendersonetal2002p.459).Thusthisargumentturnsonatwowayinteraction:atthesametimethatkeyptactsasterritializedservicepr

12、ovidersneedtoembedthemselvesintosupplychainsindertosafeguardstrengthentheircompetitivepositions‘footloose’firmsoperatinginsupplychainsneedtobesensitiveabouttheimplicationsfvaluecreationoftheterritializedinstitutionalstru

13、ctureofptswithinwhichtheybecomeembedded.ThispapermakesafirstattempttoexplethisrelationshipbyfocusingonDubaiPtsthetransfmationofitspublicptauthityintoatransnationalterminaloperat.Thepaperisstructuredasfollows.Inthenextsec

14、tionwefocusonthegeneraldebateabouttheembeddednessofptswithinsupplychainswhatthisimpliesfptstrategies.Inthethirdsectionweconstructamodeltoinvestigatetheseptstrategieswithintheterritiallyinstitutionallyembeddedstructuresin

15、whichptsoperatebymakinguseofthestructureofprovisionapproach(SOP)(Jacobs2007b).TheconceptualmodelisthenappliedtothecaseofDubai.IntheperiodbetweenFebruaryMay2005theleadauthconductedover15indepthinterviewswithptgovernmentof

16、ficialsinDubaiKhFakkanaswellaswithptusers.Respondentswereidentifiedthroughdesktopresearchusingasnowballsamplingtechniqueadditionalinterviewswereconducteduntiltheresearcherwasconfidentthathewasnotlearningnewcontradictyinf