Assessing air transport socio-economic footprint

Dimitriou, Dimitrios; Sartzetaki, Maria F.

doi:10.1016/j.ijtst.2018.07.001

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“…While airlines are change pioneer, airports also are following an essential transformation from a typical state authority of '90s accommodate air traffic to a private oriented company using the benefits of high passenger's and activities concentration in their territory, shifting airports not just as transportation hubs but also as large commercial centers and technological innovation units. While commercialization and privatization of airports are a continuing tendency around the word, supported by long-term investments and international cooperation's, these long-term life cycle arrangements boost outsourcing arrangements at airports towards operational efficiency, corporate performance, and socioeconomic effects in local economy, [1,2].…”

Section: Outsourcing Tendency In Aviationmentioning

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“…Key factor boosting transport sector growth is the deregulation of the transport sector business environment, have been adopted by most of the economies, where new business models have been introduced (e.g. Low Cost Carriers in aviation) generated new demand by providing connectivity to/from remote destinations and stimulated demand in mature markets, [2].…”

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The Evolution in Transport Operator’s Corporate Structure: Ownership and Governance

Dimitriou¹

2021

Outsourcing and Offshoring

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Outsourcing is wide used practice from large companies in the supply chain sector, especially, in transport industries, where world-wide the market deregulation is a continuing tendency towards cost control, service quality and emission mitigation. Many specialists and dedicated suppliers are already emerging with offers to take over parts of the transportation chain, while the booming of start-up companies promote a variety of data-driven applications towards operation efficiency, emission mitigation and revenues generation. Working capital and procurement cost could be more variable and transportation services are more on-demand response than ever in the past and by taken the benefits the digitalization era the shape of transportation business is changing fast, where non-transport revenues leverage by use of data are key driver of the transport companies’ business strategy. The balance between insourcing and outsourcing activities are a key challenge for transport sector and this chapter highlights innovation and success factors for the transport industry taking into consideration the digital era wave and best practices, providing recommendations and guidelines to managers, planners and decision makers.

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Section: Outsourcing Tendency In Aviationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Evolution in Transport Operator’s Corporate Structure: Ownership and Governance

Dimitriou¹

2021

Outsourcing and Offshoring

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“…Community  Creation of added value to the community  Environmental safety and production From the airports" side, based on the above-mentioned researches, we defined at first through CSR and Sustainability reporting, as main stakeholders of airports the following: i) employees, ii) community or local community, iii) customers and iv) environment. The decision of these four stakeholders based primarily by a broad aspect according to Freeman"s definition of stakeholder-"any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization's objectives" (Dimitriou et al, 2018) (Then extended by a propose that classes of stakeholders can be identified by their possession or attributed possession of one, two, or all three of the following attributes: (1) the stakeholder's power to influence the firm, (2) the legitimacy of the stakeholder's relationship with the firm, and (3) the urgency of the stakeholder's claim on the firm. This theory produces a comprehensive typology of stakeholders based on the normative assumption that these variables define the…”

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Evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility Performance in Air Transport Enterprise

Dimitriou

2020

JPAG

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The key objective of this paper is to present the dimensions and the characteristics of an airport enterprise management engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). By analyzing different strategies and plans towards CSR, applied in a sample of 15 European airports, the comprehensiveness is defined, providing the assessment framework of the airports CSR effectiveness and efficiency. Conventional wisdom is to provide a CSR assessment framework applied on airport industry. The methodology based on the competitive analysis framework, driven by benchmarking analysis applied to a group of European airports engaged in different CSR strategies. Defining the key actions of the airports CSR strategy, an assessment framework to review how this strategy meets social goals is developed. The airport strategy is reviewed considering the aviation business characteristics such as, traffic and regional GDP. Based on data collected from 15 busy European airports, the comprehensiveness of CSR strategy for this business sector considering stakeholders’ theory is investigated. The outputs provide key messages to decision makers, managers, and stakeholders towards CSR comprehensiveness of the airport operators.

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“…Many academics and organizations tried to explain the impacts of air transportation on economic growth. However, most of the studies [18] [19] [20] showed that there is a direct, indirect, induced, and catalytic impacts of air transportation to the economic growth. In this study, this categorization has been also considered and further discussed.…”

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Dynamic Nexus between Air-Transportation and Economic Growth: A Systematic Literature Review

Higgoda¹,

Madurapperuma²

2019

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Today's economic growth is not promising without air transport, up-to-date airports infrastructure, efficient and safe airline services and international air transport networks. According to WB [1], 40% of the worldwide tourists travel by air transport. The main aim of this study is to analyze the literatures of air transport and economic growth study. A systematic literature review (SLR) method was used in order to examine related articles from ABDC list journals which are ranked on A*, A or B, published in period 1992-2018. This study gives a summary of the trends and research themes which have been identified. Key scholars, as well as their approaches and locations and citations are also mapped. The findings of this study show that there is a growing interest in researching and publishing on Air transportation and economic growth. This study fills a deficiency in specialized literature concerning air transportation in developing countries and provides a foundation for future research in the field of air transportation.

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Assessing air transport socio-economic footprint

Cited by 45 publications

References 15 publications

The Evolution in Transport Operator’s Corporate Structure: Ownership and Governance

The Evolution in Transport Operator’s Corporate Structure: Ownership and Governance

Evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility Performance in Air Transport Enterprise

Dynamic Nexus between Air-Transportation and Economic Growth: A Systematic Literature Review

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