Lim, Pei-Xuan; Das, Shobha S. - In: Maritime Policy & Management 36 (2009) 3, pp. 197-213
This study examines the global population of container liners and their trade route entry patterns from 1996 to 2006. Concepts from population ecology (population density, forces of legitimacy, competition and imitation, and the liability of smallness) are applied to empirically test the...