The airport business in a competitive environment

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2013

Authors

Edgar Jimenez (Author) FEUP; João Claro (Author) FEUP; Jorge Pinho de Sousa (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research

Vol. 13 No. 4

Pages: 315-335

ISSN: 1567-7133

Publisher: EDITORIAL BOARD EJTIR

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 5 Citations

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Scopus - 6 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Economics and Business

CORDIS: Social sciences > Economics > Management studies > Transport management ; Social sciences > Economics > Transport economics

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-008-GFK

Abstract (EN): The liberalisation of the European air transport market has introduced new dynamics in the airport industry. In recent decades, airports evolved from infrastructure providers in a monopolistic context, to commercially orientated enterprises in a competitive environment. Current studies of airport strategic management lack a comprehensive perspective that enables airport operators to best identify the opportunities created by such dynamics. This paper analyses an airport as a multi-service firm that interacts with a network of stakeholders - the airport business network - to deliver several service packages to different groups of customers. An integrated conceptual framework was developed to aid academics and practitioners in the appraisal and design of competitive strategies for airports. Such framework covers a clear gap in existing literature, partly due to the fact that current perspectives on airport management fail to address the complexity of the industry in the present competitive environment.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 21