2024/2025 DIP-DMARO2402U International Shipping Governance
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International Shipping Governance |
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Language | English |
Course ECTS | 5 ECTS |
Type | Mandatory |
Level | Graduate Diploma |
Duration | One Semester |
Start time of the course | Spring |
Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
Study board |
Study Board for Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
(part 2)
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Course coordinator | |
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- Study administration for HD MAR, please contact: HD2MARITIME@cbs.dk | |
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Last updated on 20-11-2024 |
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Upon successful completion of the course,
students shall be able to:
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Course content, structure and pedagogical approach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
International Shipping Governance explores how international shipping is governed and how governance affects shipping companies and their performance. The course asks how shipping can become more efficient, competitive, greener, safer and a more attractive place to work. It trains students in applying governance theories to the study of international shipping and helps them to respond effectively and efficiently to international governance processes.
The course focuses on the main governance domains of international competition, environmental protection, maritime safety, and labour protection. It studies both public and private governance actors (including flag and port states, the IMO, the EU, classification societies, cargo-owners, financiers, and multi-stakeholder initiatives), and the main processes for shipping governance (including policy-making, implementation, compliance, and enforcement processes).
The course gives students analytical tools to study governance processes and provides them with concrete inputs on how shipping managers can navigate such processes. It enables them to formulate action plans for shipping companies to respond effectively to governance processes and improve company performance. The course covers four main topics:
1. Governance actors
2. Governance processes
3. Governance domains
4. Governance outcomes
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A combination of on-campus and online teaching -
6 online sessions and one double session on campus. On campus
teaching with student group work.
Pre-recorded videos on key course concepts will be available on Canvas at the beginning of the semester. |
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Feedback during the teaching period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Students will get feedback from the teacher as
well as from fellow students on two group assignments during the
semester.
Optional assignment 1 Students are encouraged to form groups of 2-3 members. Each group shall record a video, in which they analyze a current topic in international shipping governance and discuss how it affects shipping companies and their performance. In the video, students shall apply governance theories from the course, and they are free to choose the governance domain. They shall share their videos and the associated slides with their fellow students over the course’s Canvas page. Optional assignment 2 Each group of students are encouraged to provide written feedback for at least one group video presentation over Canvas. The teacher will give students both written and oral feedback to their videos as well as their student feedback. |
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Further Information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The course consists of a total of 24 lessons (5 ECTS). For information relating to the course please go
to: canvas.cbs.dk Teaching dates: Monday in week 9 online from 17.05-19.45 Wednesday in weeks 9,10,11,12,13 online from 17.05-19.45 Saturday on campus from 09.50-16.05
Materials are not available yet.
Course Coordinator: René Taudal Poulsen rtp.msc@cbs.dk -
Department of Management, Society and Communication
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Expected literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abbott, K. W., & Snidal, D. (2000). Hard and Soft Law in International Governance. International Organization, 54(3), 421-456.
Abbott, K. W., & Snidal, D. (2021). International “Standards” and International Governance. In The Spectrum of International Institutions (pp. 29-51). Routledge.
Bach, H., & Hansen, T. (2023). IMO off Course for Decarbonisation of Shipping? Three Challenges for Stricter Policy. Marine Policy, 147, 105379.
Barnett, M., & Duvall, R. (2005). Power in International Politics. International Organization, 59(1), 39-75.
Bloor, M., Sampson, H., Baker, S., Walters, D., Dahlgren, K., Wadsworth, E., & James, P. (2013). Room for Manoeuvre? Regulatory Compliance in the Global Shipping Industry. Social & Legal Studies, 22(2), 171-189.
Cariou, P., Mejia Jr, M.Q., & Wolff, F.C. (2008). On the Effectiveness of Port State Control Inspections. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 44(3), 491-503.
DeSombre, E. R. (2008). Globalization, Competition, and Convergence: Shipping and the Race to the Middle. Global Governance, 14, 179.
DeSombre, E. R., Knudsen, J. S., & Elder, M. (2024). Regulation from Above or Below: Port Greening Measures in the European Union and the United States. Regulation & Governance.
Lister, J., Poulsen, R.T., and Ponte, S. (2015). Orchestrating Environmental Governance in Maritime Shipping, Global Environmental Change 34 (September), 185-195.
Monios, J. (2023). The Moral Limits of Market-Based Mechanisms: An Application to the International Maritime Sector. Journal of Business Ethics, 187(2), 283-299.
Österman, C., & Hult, C. (2016). Administrative Burdens and Over-Exertion in Swedish Short Sea Shipping. Maritime Policy & Management, 43(5), 569-579.
Poulsen, R.T., Ponte, S., van Leeuwen, J., and Rehmatulla, N., 2021. The potential and limits of environmental disclosure regulation: A global value chain perspective applied to tanker shipping, Global Environmental Politics 21(2), 99-120.
Roe, M. (2009). Multi-level and Polycentric Governance: Effective Policymaking for Shipping. Maritime Policy & Management, 36(1), 39-56.
Sampson, H. (2022). ‘Beyond the State’: The Limits of International Regulation and the Example of Abandoned Seafarers. Marine Policy, 140, 105046.
Sampson, H., & Bloor, M. (2007). When Jack Gets out of The Box: The Problems of Regulating a Global Industry. Sociology, 41(3), 551-569.
Sampson, H., Turgo, N., Acejo, I., Ellis, N., & Tang, L. (2019). ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea. Work, Employment and Society 33(4), 648-665.
Van Leeuwen, J. (2015). The Regionalization of Maritime Governance: Towards a Polycentric Governance System for Sustainable Shipping in the European Union. Ocean & Coastal Management, 117, 23-31.
Yan, R., Wang, S., & Peng, C. (2022). Ship Selection in Port State Control: Status and Perspectives. Maritime Policy & Management, 49(4), 600-615. |