우리나라 항만하역업의 산업조직에 관한 탐색적 연구

On the Korean Port Stevedoring Industry - an introductive organizational study -

  In the last analysis, this research aimed for the empirical test on the strategic behavior and it"s managerial performance in korean port logistics industry. And we described this paper as an outcome of introductive study focused on the industrial organization of port stevedoring industry. In many of korean ports, port logistics companies are struggling in bitter competition provoked by deregulation. On the whole, labor and capital productivities are shown decreasing trend, and many of companies are undergoing depreciated profitability. Under this gloomy circumstance, we tried an empirical test on the geographically diversification strategy and some managerial performances of port stevedoring companies. As a result of ANOVA test, there are prominent differences in management scale but no critical difference appeared in productivity and growth variables between the diversification groups.