This study aims to investigate how seaport research has been conducted from the methodological perspective. To this end, this study reviews published port literature for the last three decades (1980–2000s). The investigation primarily categorises the literature according to various methodological issues such as research paradigm, research strategy, basedisciplines,research methods and analysi…
The purpose of this paper is to show how a critical realist paradigmatic stance and its associated research methodology can contribute to supply-chain research by providing explanations for specific supply-chain- and logistics-related dynamic phenomena.