Fragmentation and coordination in the Scandinavian railway sector

Olsen, Silvia

doi:10.1177/0020852307081146

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“…Während beide Fälle nur beschränkt Hinweise auf die Bedeutung von "coercive pressures" beispielsweise von Seiten der EU liefern, konnten einzelne gesellschaftliche Akteure mit ihren Interessen den Reformprozess in Deutschland beeinflussen. Der Bahnsektoren Norwegens, Schwedens und Dänemarks dienen Olsen (2007) zur Analyse von Fragmentierungs-und Koordinierungsbestrebungen, welche durch NPM-Reformen ausgelöst worden sind. Olsen versucht die in den einzelnen Ländern vorgefundenen Mischungen aus vier analytischen Perspektiven zu erklären.…”

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Die Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen als Allzweckinstrument der Politik

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2012

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Die Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen als Allzweckinstrument der Politik

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2012

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“…However, bearing in mind the international scope of this study, our conceptual framework incorporated also the notion of path-dependency (Krasner, 1988), which recognizes that different countries have different historical and cultural traditions, and therefore their reform processes may follow different trajectories (Christensen and Laegreid, 2004;Olsen, 2007). This approach suggests that the compliance process and the outcomes of the same European rail liberalization directives may be influenced by the target countries' national conditions (Jansen, Osland and Hanf, 1998;Walker, Baarse, Van Velzen, and Järli, 2007).…”

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Liberalisation of Rail Freight Markets in the Old and New EU-Member States

Ludvigsen

Osland

2009

European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research

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This article examines whether the European Commission succeeded in reducing the negative socio-environmental externalities of road transport in Northern, Central and South-eastern Europe by introducing the First Infrastructure Package and Interoperability Directive that opened rail freight markets to competition. Using results from the EC-sponsored REORIENT project, the article searches for causal links between the completeness of legislative adherence and the occurrence of market rivalry. In so doing, it draws on the New Public Management (NPM) theorem which provided conceptual underpinnings for liberalisation policy and the notion of path-dependency warning that effectiveness of any public policy is contingent on the features of its implementation context. The article contrasts the adoption of rail deregulation directives by the old and rich EU-states in the Nordic region with the newly liberated, more recent EU-members in Central and South-eastern Europe in order to expose how the political, economic and cultural features of these countries affected the quality of legislative compliance and market rivalry. This method unearthed a clearly polarised picture of inter-country compliance and competition pattern. Norway, Sweden and Finland exhibit high levels of legal adherence without however, much intra-rail competition. Cut-off from the government subsidies, these countries’ state railways compete today with road operators, without however facing much rivalry from truckers. On the other hand, the new EU-members still lag on legislative conformance, but their licensing authorities granted operating permits to quite many private entrants. These carriers compete fiercely with the national incumbents, but the rail service quality they provide does not as yet threaten the dominance of truck in national freight transport. As a result, no inter-modal competition exists there. These findings indicate that liberalisation of rail freight market has not as yet reduced the road-rail imbalance in European freight markets nor curbed the negative socio-environmental externalities associated with motorised transport. Methodologically, this article exposed the analytical shortcoming of the NPM theorem and the strong empirical relevance of the path-dependency hypothesis.

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“…Several studies have scrutinized the railway freight liberalization pioneers, for example the UK (Brewer, 1996;Cowie, 2009;Woodburn, 2003Woodburn, , 2007 and the USA (Boyer, 1987;Jahanshahi, 1998;OECD, 1997). Numerous studies have concentrated on comparing Western countries, like the UK, Sweden, Germany and the USA (Hilmola et al, 2007;Ludvigsen and Osland, 2009;Nilsson, 2002;Olsen, 2007;Profillidis, 2004) or eastern countries (Szekely, 2009a, b). However, previous literature exposed some gaps in the knowledge concerning the markets: particularly important is to compare the eastern and Western European railway freight market peculiarities.…”

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Stimulating competition in the liberalized railway freight market

Laisi

Mäkitalo

Hilmola

2012

Baltic Journal of Management

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to understand the main market entry barriers confronted by the new operators in liberalized railway freight market (Poland and Sweden), as well as to analyze the inaugurating market of Finland. Design/methodology/approach -Swedish and Polish markets were scrutinized utilizing qualitative case study, implemented through semi-structured theme interviews. Among primary observations, numerous second-hand sources were used to gain triangulation. Research was conducted during early 2009. The Finnish material was collected with Delphi technique-based questionnaires in 2005. Findings -The main findings support previous studies arguing that the main barriers to entry are rolling stock acquisition, needed investments and bureaucracy. In Sweden, companies were start-ups established on the grounds of the incumbent. The Polish market obtained new operators via vertical integration with a significant competitive presence of a governmental operator. Inaugurating Finnish market is identified as a combination of these two. Therefore, it is easier to understand why new entrants are not operating in the Finnish market. Originality/value -The research contributes novel, first-hand data to the subject, which earlier have been studied mostly via second-hand data and literature analyses.

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Fragmentation and coordination in the Scandinavian railway sector

Cited by 10 publications

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Die Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen als Allzweckinstrument der Politik

Die Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen als Allzweckinstrument der Politik

Liberalisation of Rail Freight Markets in the Old and New EU-Member States

Stimulating competition in the liberalized railway freight market

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