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Table 57: The importance of the five variables of the quality of a CAR
Variable All cases Durban Rotterdam LMPC
Leader firms 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.5
Organizational infrastructure 4.4 4.5 4.1*** 4.6
Involvement public actors 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.2
Voice 4.0** 4.2 3.8*** 4.2
Community argument 3.8* 4.1 3.5 3.9
Average scores on the scale of 1 (not important) to 5 (very important)
* Significantly lower than other scores
** Significantly lower than three most important factors
*** Significant difference with other cases
The Performance of Seaport Clusters
These figures show that all five variables are relevant. The least important variable (the
community argument) has an average score of 3.8 (on a scale from 1 to 5). Furthermore, the
figures show that the three variables, leader firms, the role of public actors and the
organizational infrastructure are the most important.
The survey results presented above confirm the existence and importance of five CAR’s in
port clusters and the relevance of the five variables of the quality of a CAR. In the following
paragraphs, the five relevant CAR’s are discussed. First, survey results are presented. The
experts were asked to assess the quality of each regime. Two statistical tests are
performed: one to analyze the significance of differences between the cases a second to
analyze which variables in a regime are evaluated positive and which negative. The latter
analysis is carried out by analyzing the significance of differences between the score of one
variable with the average score of all variables in the regime.
Second, a detailed description of each regime is given. On the basis of the expert judgment
and desk research, opportunities to improve the regime are discussed. These opportunities
were discussed with the experts. Only opportunities that are acknowledged by a number of
experts are discussed. In some cases steps to develop joint initiatives to improve the regime
have already been taken.