Sustainable Port Clusters and Economic Development Building Competitiveness through Clustering of Spatially Dispersed Supply Chains

Dr Elvira Haezendonck is Full Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp, and a guest lecturer at Erasmus University of Rotterdam and at C-MAT (University of Antwerp). Her research covers advanced subject matters in the fields of (port) management, strategy and policy.  She has expertise in complex project evaluation, corporate social responsibility and environmental strategy, competitive analysis and stakeholder management. She has published various articles, books and book chapters in these domains.   

Dr Alain Verbeke is Professor of International Business Strategy and holds the McCaig Research Chair in Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary.  He is also the Area Chair of the Strategy and Global Management Group at the Haskayne School of Business.  In 2014, Dr. Verbeke was elected as the Inaugural Alan M. Rugman Memorial Fellow at the Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK).  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies (2017 – 2019) and has authored or edited more than 30 books and more than 200 refereed publications.