Landlubbers and seadogs : the case of labour mobility in the Danish maritime sector in a time of accelerating globalisation / Henrik Sornn-Friese, Carsten orts Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sornn-Friese, Henrik.

Contributor:

Hansen, Carsten 0rts.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchant mariners--Supply and demand--Denmark.

Merchant mariners.

Merchant marine--Denmark.

Merchant marine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Frederiksberg] : Copenhagen Business School Press : Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an authoritative analysis of how increasing globalization in the maritime sector challenges the entwined shipping communities of traditional maritime nations. Through an empirical analysis of developments in labor mobility within the maritime sector in Denmark it shows that the shipping companies have been significant providers of competence to the national maritime skills base, but also that their current global factor sourcing choices threaten to dissolve this skills base. These findings have important implications regarding productivity, growth and competitiveness for policy makers and companies in the maritime domain. The shipping industry is the most global of all industries and its events thus provide a good indicator of what is to come in other industries and are therefore relevant in a general perspective.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Colophon""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword ""; ""Chapter 1 ""; ""Globalisation in Shipping and the Maritime Cluster Response ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Critical issues in relation to DIS as a policy tool for enhancing the competitiveness of Danish shipping ""; ""Maritime clustering and the economics of concentration in Danish shipping ""; ""Outline ""; ""The Structure of the Book ""; ""Chapter 2 ""; ""Linking Labour Mobility with Clusters and Competitiveness ""; ""Introduction ""; ""What is Competitiveness? ""; ""Competitiveness as a Zero or Positive Sum Game ""

""Productivity and the production function """"The Competitive Advantage of Industrial Clustering ""; ""Externalities and the production function ""; ""Sketching a Dynamic Typology of Clusters ""; ""Positioning the Study of This Book in the Cluster Typology ""; ""Tracking externalities and knowledge spillovers ""; ""Labour Mobility Matters ""; ""Empirical Setting and Methodology ""; ""Summary ""; ""Chapter 3 ""; ""Denmark as a Maritime Nation""; ""Introduction ""; ""The Shipping Industry ""; ""The Danish shipping companies ""; ""The Broader Maritime Sector ""

""Seafarers and Shipping Company Staff """"Introduction ""; ""What are Seafarers and Shore-Based Shipping Company Staff? ""; ""Seafarers ""; ""Shipping company staff ""; ""The population ""; ""Chapter 6 ""; ""Labour Mobility in the Danish Maritime Sector ""; ""Introduction ""; ""The Outflow Mobility of Danish Shipping Industry Professionals ""; ""Job-to-job mobility of resident Danish seafarers ""; ""Job-to-job mobility of resident Danish shipping company staff ""; ""Occupational class mobility of Danish shipping industry professionals ""; ""Summary of outflow mobility analysis ""

""The Regulators as Driving Force Affecting Labour Mobility ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

87-630-9938-1