This two volume book presents an in-depth analysis of many of the most important issues facing today's shipping and port sectors. Volume 2 of Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy focuses on the emerging trends in ports.

This two volume book presents an in-depth analysis of many of the most important issues facing today's shipping and port sectors. Volume 1 of Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy focuses on the application of theory to practice in Maritime Logistics.

This book disassembles the moral assessment of business practices into its constituent parts to identify and clarify the four key concepts that form the basis of important moral disagreements in business: ‘personhood,’ ‘ownership,’ ‘harm,’ and ‘consent.’ ‘Moral bottom lines’...

Index based insurance schemes can play a vital role in insuring poor people in developing countries against a multitude of risk. However, the concept doesn’t go along without any obstacles. Matthias Rödl provides a theoretical framework of index based insurance schemes and further highlights...

1. Risky Play -- 2. Falling Fast -- 3. Moral Risk in a Nursing Home -- 4. Coping with Fallibility in Aviation -- 5. Fallibility and Trust in Healthcare -- 6. Approaches to Help in Organizations -- 7. Ethics of Fallibility

Vera Stolz-Gerhardt untersucht die Notwendigkeit der Rettung systemrelevanter Banken und diskutiert darauf aufbauend die in der Finanzkrise 2007 - 2009 etablierten staatlich induzierten Bankenrettungsmaßnahmen (Bailouts). Sie zeigt auf, dass diese das systemische Risiko insgesamt erhöhen...

The Business of Motion Picture Production and Distribution -- Co-Financing Film Projects with External Investors -- Principal Agent Problems in Co-Financing Relationships -- Empirical Investigation of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard -- Managerial Implications and Developments in the...

Rahmenbedingungen des Outsourcings von Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen über Energie-Performance-Contracting und dessen Kooperationsanreize -- Agencytheoretische Einordnung der Anreizproblematik als Double Moral Hazard -- Anreizanalyse möglicher Vertragsmodelle und Bestimmung anreizgerechter...

This book is the result of an international comparative study of corporate governance begun in 2002, and provides analysis of the issue as it applies to management, moral hazards, accounting practices, and the institutional investor from both a Japanese and a global perspective. The study...