Preliminary communication
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DECENTRALIZATION OF PORTS OPEN TO THE COUNTY IMPORTANT PUBLIC TRAFFIC
Alen Jugović
Abstract
The issue referring to the centralization or decentralization of the county port authorities is an open question since the enactment of the Maritime Domain and Seaports Act, where the structure of the county port authorities is neither explicitly defined nor is the number of the established port authorities within a particular
county determined. Therefore, the paper aims at determining the facts that are of utmost importance for the implementation of various organizational structures in the managing of those ports. A special analysis is made of the legal, economic and theoretical factors that have an indirect impact on the port authorities work effectiveness and efficiency, and, in the same way, on the choice of the relevant model of managing county port authorities or ports open to the county important public traffic. Pursuant to the stated problem and reserach area, a working hypothesis has been offered: to determine the tendencies for changing and introducing new models of managing county port authorities by using scientifically based conceptions of the organization in general, in particular of the relevant legislative regulations. The results obtained have shown that in making a decision on the establishment of one or more port authorities for the managing of ports open to the county important public traffic it is necessary to take into consideration all relevant factors that have an influence on the county port authorities develpoment, management and business operations.
Keywords
management; decentralization; county important port authorities
Hrčak ID:
14173
URI
Publication date:
27.6.2007.
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