Institutional structure and agency in the governance of spatial diversification of port system evolution in Latin America

Ports, peripherality and concentration – deconcentration factors: a review

“…• Port selection and shipping line concentration Charlier (1998), Wang and Slack (2000), Notteboom (2005), Fremont and Soppe (2007) • Port selection, flexibility and accessibility Notteboom (2009), Notteboom (2010), Ducruet and Zaidi (2012) • Port competition and urban growth De and Park (2003), Ducruet and Lee (2006) • Port competition, changing port hierarchy Ducruet et al (2009b), Lee and Kim (2009), , Wang and Cullinane (2014), Fraser et al (2016), Pham et al (2016) • National/government and regional development plans Brunt (2000), Ducruet (2008) • Government plans and policy, Port Devolution Ducruet et al (2009b), Lemarchand and Joly (2009), Sh inohara (2009), Parola et al (2013), Wilms meier and Monios (2016) Source: Author, modified and updated from Ducruet et al (2009b) Ports, peripherality and concentration deconcentration factors and how these factors emerge in certain periods across the three time periods 1970-1990, 1990-2008 and post-2008.…”

Between path dependency and contingency: New challenges for the geography of port system evolution

“…Despite a recent growth in the institutional analysis of port development (Ng and Pallis, 2010;Jacobs and Notteboom, 2011;Notteboom et al, 2013;Wilmsmeier and Monios, 2016), missing from previous analyses has been a critique of the role of the dominant neo-liberal narrative . This criticism has been directed at geography more widely: Smith (2005;p.…”

“…Linking these first two papers of the special section with the next two papers reveals how spatial processes, while conforming to some degree to previous theoretical predictions, are nonetheless shaped by wider economic processes, institutional mediation and the exercise of power. Wilmsmeier and Monios (2016) argue that port development is challenged not only by the generic influence of growing trade flows but by institutional conditions that tend to be regionally specific and contingent. The paper analyses the intersection of two clear trends in the evolution of port systems, decentralisation of port governance and deconcentration of port traffic.…”

“…Thus the papers reach from the traditional spatial approach (Rodrigue and Ashar, 2016) to network analysis (Mohamed-Chérif and Ducruet, 2016) to institutional discussions (Vonck and Notteboom, 2016;Wilmsmeier and Monios, 2016). The selection of papers allows an opening of discussion and reflection on current research, necessary critical analysis of the influences on port system evolution and, most importantly, 2 future directions.…”

Examining performance change and its drivers in Irish ports 2000-2016

“…A key challenge in examining performance change over an extended period of time is accounting for the environmental factors external to the control of the individual port managers who drive performance. Ports and port systems evolve over time and in response to various forces in the port and maritime industry (meso), and wider macro-economic environment in which the ports are embedded (Beresford et al, 2004;Sánchez and Wilmsmeier, 2010;Wilmsmeier and Monios, 2016). Demand for port services is derived from the requirements of international trade, and ports evolve relative to changes in the nature of this demand.…”