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Special issue on: “Dynamics of Innovation and Competitive Strategy in Transportation Research”

 

Janet K. Tinoco, PhD.

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

 

While innovation has been noted to be essential to sustained competitive advantage in many industry sectors, academic and practitioner research of innovation in transportation has been minimal. Yet transportation provides a unique context in which to examine the dynamics of innovation and its impacts to competitive strategy. 

 

As industries age, innovations developed and implemented within organizations change in type and intensity. Product innovation and production process innovation, both highly examined in manufacturing sectors across industry life cycles, are not adequately researched in transportation industries. Additionally, there is an enormous gap in research with respect to less “visible” innovations, which include, but are not limited to, administrative and organizational innovations that focus on organizational structure, administrative processes and human resources; technical innovations that pertain to the technology used to produce products and render services; and marketing innovations that focus on the generation and implementation of new, novel elements in the marketing process, focusing on product, price, placement, and promotion as the variables of interest. These less “visible” types of innovations often provide sustained competitive advantage as they challenge competitors to discover and uncover an organizationally embedded rare and valuable innovation which is not easily imitated or substituted.

 

This special issue of WRITR is intended to present current research in the development and implementation of a broad spectrum of innovation types, their applications in transportation and supporting/related industries, changes in innovation across industry life cycles, and the resulting implications for strategy and competitive advantage. We encourage papers from all aspects of transportation and intermodal transportation where innovation has occurred or should occur, such as

 

Air cargo and passenger transportation

Alliances in the transportation industries

Brokering services

Cargo handling, equipment and facilities

Container development and evolution

Development of hubbing systems

Electronic Data Interchange

Future innovation trends in intermodal transporation

Ground transportation

Infrastructure development, maintenance, and upgrade

Intelligent transportation systems

Leasing companies

Network design

Ocean port development, facilities, and linkages

Pipeline operations

Railroad development and involvement in intermodal transportation

Security and safety of the transportation system

Supply chain innovation

Sustainability/transformational innovation

Transportation competition and cooperation

Transportation networks

Warehousing and inventory

 

Papers are not exclusively limited to the above fields.

 

 

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the   World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research is listed in Cabells Directory of Publishing Opportunties and is in the National Academies of Science, Transportation Research Board library.

 

 

Submission of full paper before: 7 August 2009 (extended)

 

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to .  If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal.

Prospective authors are welcome to submit an abstract to the guest editor for preliminary feedback on the appropriateness of their planned manuscript. Please clearly identify your submission in the email subject line "WRITR- Dynamics of Innovation and Competitive Strategy in Transportation Research – Special Issue."

Guest Editor: 

Dr. Janet K. Tinoco

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

College of Business

600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.

Daytona Beach, FL 32114

USA

Email: tinocoj@erau.edu