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Integrating triple ‘P’

December 8th, 2014 Containers, Featured, PortStudies

In one of the key scholarly contributions in the 3rd volume of the Book Series by the Sefacil foundation on Port-City governance, PortEconomics member Michaël Dooms explores the strategic management of the social license to operate for ports, linking objective “triple P” performance management (through e.g. sustainability reports) with subjective perception indicators of the strength of the social license to operate. The thought process in the chapter, rooted both in theory as well as prolific practical examples from leading ports, suggests a matrix identifying 4 potential risk situations for port authorities, in relation to performance management and the license to operate. For each risk situation, specific strategic actions are suggested to improve the position of the port in the matrix.

In the third volume of the Book series, edited by Yann Alix, Bruno Delsalle and Claude Comtois, a large group of scholars and practitioners look into the issue of port-city governance. The book was presented during the 14th IACP/AIVP Conference beginning of November in Durban, South Africa

The Book series is traditionally printed on 1.000 issues and distributed through the Sefacil network, but the research is also freely and fully available through the website of the Foundation, where the full books and chapters can be downloaded. While volume 3 is not online yet, previous volumes, also including contributions from PortEconomics members, are available.

The SEFACIL foundation aims at polarizing the knowledge and the intelligences of the French-speaking world through the team-up of multidisciplinary & applied researchers. The foundation accompanies the creation of innovative educational products thanks to the support of the biggest private enterprises of the port, maritime and logistic sectors as well as national and international public bodies and institutions. A collection of books, the creation of a pulpit of excellence as well as the organization of events and the representation to international authorities complete the device for an international recognition of the foundation.

You may freely download Michael’s chapter 3 @PortEconomic.eu.

dr. Michaël Dooms (MSc & PhD, Applied Economics: Business and Technology, Solvay Business School, University of Brussels) is associate professor at the Solvay Business School at the University of Brussels (VUB). He is program director of the MSc in Management/Bedrijfskunde, teaches courses in Management and Strategy, Organization Design & Change, and is responsible for the internship program and foreign trade mission. For the trade mission project, since 2007, he has supervised more than 150 projects on the field aimed at foreign market expansion in emerging economies such as, inter alia, India, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Colombia. His PhD Thesis won the 2011 Palgrave MacMillan MEL PhD Competition (4th edition). It treats the spatial and dynamic aspects of stakeholder management, with an application to large-scale infrastructure projects, including port projects, master plans, and vision cases. He is a member of PortEconomics.eu and a member of the Port Performance Research Network (PPRN), where he co-animates the port authority strategy group. His other research interests are in the fields of complex project evaluation (of large scale infrastructure projects), stakeholder management and corporate strategies. He is currently a guest professor of port management and strategy at universities in the Netherlands (MEL-Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Greece (AUEB), and formerly in Belgium (Antwerp, ITMMA). He has worked as a project manager and researcher on the formulation, evaluation, management and implementation of infrastructure development projects, strategies and visions characterized by a multi-disciplinary (integration of technical, economic and environmental criteria) and multi-stakeholder (public and private sector, local communities) approach, exceeding a total value of more than 10 million euros. Among the principals in contract research and consultancy are infrastructure managers (port authorities, airports, railway infrastructure,...), private construction firms and project developers, regional development agencies, stakeholder interest groups, trade associations, and various government levels (local, regional, national, transnational). In the field of strategy and organizational change, he was a key member of the strategy office developing and implementing of a strategic plan for the Belgian rail infrastructure manager Infrabel (2006-2010). In the management of the University of Brussels, he was vice-chairman of the Board of Directors during 2005-2008. He also co-founded a university spin-off company. From 2013 onwards, he leads the PORTOPIA project (www.portopia.eu), a large EU-FP7 collaborative research project on port performance measurement.

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