Sustainable Port Clusters and Economic Development

Dr Elvira Haezendonck is Full Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp, and a guest lecturer at Erasmus University of Rotterdam and at C-MAT (University of Antwerp). Her research covers advanced subject matters in the fields of (port) management, strategy and policy.  She has expertise in complex project evaluation, corporate social responsibility and environmental strategy, competitive analysis and stakeholder management. She has published various articles, books and book chapters in these domains.  Dr Alain Verbeke is Professor of International Business Strategy and holds the McCaig Research Chair in Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary.  He is also the Area Chair of the Strategy and Global Management Group at the Haskayne School of Business.  In 2014, Dr. Verbeke was elected as the Inaugural Alan M. Rugman Memorial Fellow at the Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK).  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies (2017 – 2019) and has authored or edited more than 30 books and more than 200 refereed publications.

“The book is both extensive and unique in examining the spatial and activity scope of port collaboration, but its focus remains on the Benelux region within Northwest Europe. … This book should therefore be seen as a solid and inspiring building block for a broader scope analysis of port collaboration, as opposed to being the definitive work on the subject matter.” (Michaël Dooms, Maritime Economics & Logistics, Vol. 22, 2020)

• 1. Introduction: Co-Orchestrating Sustainable Port Ecosystems- Elvira Haezendonck and Alain Verbeke.- 2. A new governance perspective on port-hinterland relationships: the port hinterland impact (phi) matrix- Elvira Haezendonck, Michael Dooms and Alain Verbeke.- 3. The persistent relevance of trans border (focal) regions: the case of the European blue banana- Paul Brugman and Alain Verbeke.- 4.  Integrated ports clusters and competitive advantage in an extended resource pool for the Antwerp Seaport- Mychal Langenus and Elvira Haezendonck.- 5. The impact of clusters on firms’ environmental strategies: case study of Antwerp’s chemical cluster- Tim Jans and Elvira Haezendonck.- 6. The impact of collaboration on green competitive advantage in Europe’s largest petrochemical   cluster- Tim Jans and Elvira Haezendonck.