Logistics innovation in Seaports: An inter-organizational perspective

Alliance strategy: context, process, and requirements

“…Then, organizations develop interventions, possibly engaging new partners in the network. These interventions involve both process and content dimensions, for instance a plan to implement new logistics concepts (De Martino, 2013). A design-oriented approach has been advocated to develop interventions consisting of new tools, concepts, and implementation steps (Russell et al, 2015).…”

“…Infrastructures such as roads and bridges (Zhang et al, 2011), sea and airports continue to be developed. Through sometimes PPP (Joha and Janssen, 2010), organizations invest in their technical-economic potential and environmental performance to better serve public, private and societal stakeholders (De Martino et al, 2013;Hall et al, 2013;Pestana et al, 2012). The Silicon valley technical-economic success has led to new concepts such as 'maintenance valley', cluster policy, and campuses that are experimented across the globe (Hospers et al, 2009).…”

“…While increasingly 'innovation is a collective process which increasingly depends on the formation of collaborations and alliances ' (De Martino et al, 2013), selecting and building actual ISS relationships are delicate processes. Some ISS remain limited to bilateral horizontal or vertical cooperation.…”

“…Business network innovation seeks to find ways to obtain more benefits and or lower costs from their resources (Dyer and Singh, 1998;. Scholars distinguish social-relational and technological process innovation (De Martino, 2013;Håkansson and Snehota, 1995;Saji and Ellingstad, 2016). The former concern the development and implementation of new managerial practices, processes or structures (Birkinshaw et al, 2008), while the latter examines the role of new technology in organizations and organizational fields (Greve and Seidel, 2015).…”

“…Researchers have defined networks as 'companies and relationships between them', noting the difficulty of demarcating network boundaries . Innovation in networks takes the form of business process improvement (De Martino, 2013), development of network relationships (Reypens et al, 2016), and collective product-service delivery (Tax, 2013).…”