Search Results - subject:"Shipping Industry"

Romero, Gonzalo; Druán, Guillermo; Marenco, Javier; … - In: International transactions in operational research : … 20 (2013) 6, pp. 767-794

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Internet disclosure and corporate performance: A case study of the international shipping industry

Andrikopoulos, Andreas; Merika, Anna A.; Triantafyllou, Anna - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 47 (2013) C, pp. 141-152

Dissemination of information via corporate websites is considered to be desirable, because it constitutes a way round modes of market failure, such as asymmetric information in capital markets and agency problems. This paper explores the relationship between internet disclosure, profitability...

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Marine energy consumption, national economic activity, and greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping

Chang, Ching-Chih - In: Energy Policy 41 (2012) C, pp. 843-848

The causal relationships among marine energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, and economic growth for Kyoto Protocol Annex I countries for the period of 1990 to 2006 are discussed. The real gross domestic product is used as a proxy for economic activity. The...

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Industria portuale marittima e sviluppo economico negli Stati Uniti

Foschi, Alga - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2004

In questa comunicazione si tratta dello stato dei porti negli Stati Uniti e della loro competitivita' a livello mondiale. La capacita' di sostenere lo sviluppo dell'economia degli Stati Uniti dipende anche dalla loro organica collocazione all'interno del sistema intermodale nazionale sul lato...

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Sociological factors influencing the practice of incident reporting: the case of the shipping industry

Bhattacharya, Syamantak - In: Employee Relations 34 (2011) 1, pp. 4-21

employment relations underpin the practice of incident reporting in the international shipping industry. Design … organisational weaknesses in the shipping industry. In particular ineffective regulatory infrastructure, weak employment practices … reporting in the shipping industry were reported in the past, previous studies did not offer further explanations. This paper …

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What about operational economics? How international accounting standards neglects social structures and special cultures

Forsberg, Per - In: International Journal of Economics and Accounting 1 (2010) 1/2, pp. 107-122

This article argues that the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) neglects social structures and the special culture of operational economics. The article refers to an ethnographic study of a family-owned shipping company in Sweden (Forsberg, 2001). Based on an understanding of how...

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Industria portuale marittima e sviluppo economico negli Stati Uniti

Foschi, Alga - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2004

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Does the Separation of Regulatory Powers Reduce the Threat of Capture? Evidence from the US Maritime Bureaucracy

Uribe, Marín; Luis, Pedro; Sicotte, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Recent economic theories have investigated the susceptibility of diverse public bureaucratic structures to capture by private industry. In particular, Laffont and Martimort (1999) propose that the separation of regulatory powers will reduce the threat of capture. We analyse investor reaction to...

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The maritime container transport structure in the mediterranean and italy

Foschi, Alga - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università …

In this paper we will describe the liner shipping industry in the Mediterranean and in Italy. The structure of the … shipping industry is made up of small to medium companies that are strong in inter-regional and specialized traffic. …

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Flagging Standards: Globalization and Environmental, Safety, and Labor Regulations at Sea

DeSombre, Elizabeth R. - The MIT Press

globalization on environmental, safety, and labor standards in the shipping industry. She finds that the economic advantages of …

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