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Industrial leadership : a historical analysis of merchant shipping

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Industrial leadership : a historical analysis of merchant shipping

Clydesdale, G.
Type: Thesis
Permalink: https://hdl.handle.net/10182/1712
Originally published: 2002 by Lincoln University
Keywords: evolutionary economics; economic history; shipping; maritime industries; institutional economics

Abstract:

This thesis set out to explore the forces that determine the rise and fall of industrial leadership. It attempted to do this by applying an industry life cycle model to the shipping industry. The industrial life cycle was posited on the basis of existing literature, particularly the growth of knowledge, evolutionary and institutional literature, which lend themselves to patterns of industrial growth and entrapment. On this basis, this thesis set out to examine whether industrial leadership can be explained by a four-staged process of imitation, catch up, advance and entrapment. However, this thesis has exposed something more complicated. Processes of imitation, catch up advance and entrapment were shown to be at work in the shipping industry, but they were tempered by the effects of military and political forces that may not be exogenous, and the trend from regionalism to globalisation. The original model did not encompass early indigenous developments that are not based on imitation that do not immediately lead to a position of advanced leadership. In this light, a better description of the first stage would be capability building.

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