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Lessons from the Twin Mega-Crises : The Financial Meltdown and the BP Oil Spill
Friedman, Hershey H. - 2010
This paper explores the synchronicity of two mega-crises we are now facing: The BP oil spill and the repercussions of the 2008 financial meltdown. It examines some key common threads in both of these crises. The overarching message is that firms must maintain a culture of social responsibility,...
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Policy shock : recalibrating risk and regulation after oil spills, nuclear accidents, and financial crises
Balleisen, Edward J. (ed.) - 2017
Policy Shock examines how policy-makers in industrialized democracies respond to major crises. After the immediate challenges of disaster management, crises often reveal new evidence or frame new normative perspectives that drive reforms designed to prevent future events of a similar magnitude....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285126
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Challenges and opportunities for Korea's shipping industry in the era of globalization : the impact of financial crisis from 1998 to 2003
Kim, Sung June - In: The Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics 41 (2025) 1, pp. 12-18
The Korean shipping industry, which underwent consolidation of shipping companies in the 1980s, continued to grow with … ultimately resulted in a financial crisis. From 1998-2003, the Korean shipping industry had to struggle to survive amid a … national financial crisis. In this paper, the author aims to analyze the impact of the financial crisis on the Korean shipping …
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Behavior of small and medium shipping enterprises' working capital management : moderating role of firm-specific characteristics in times of crises and geopolitical risk
Suntichai Kotcharin; Kulaya Jantadej - In: Cogent business & management 11 (2024) 1, pp. 1-29
enterprises (SMEs) in the shipping industry, particularly during crises and geopolitical uncertainty, as well as the moderating … effects of firm-specific characteristics and macroeconomic factors. We used firm-level data from Thailand's shipping SMEs from … relationship between working capital and profitability for all of the study's samples. Shipping SMEs tended to adopt aggressive …
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The Blue Maritime Cluster Crisis : Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects
Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2019
The present paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015-2017 and its impact on one of the most complete maritime clusters, more precise the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at Møre og Romsdal at the North Western Coast of Norway.As this cluster is heavily involved in offshore petroleum...
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Measuring Crisis Risk Using Conditional Copulas : An Empirical Analysis of the 2008 Shipping Crisis
Opitz, Sebastian - 2017
The shipping crisis starting in 2008 was characterized by sharply decreasing freight rates and sharply increasing … about one year before the actual crisis outburst and that the shipping crisis was predominantly driven by an oversupply of …
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Disruptions and resilience in global container shipping and ports : the COVID-19 pandemic versus the 2008-2009 financial crisis
Notteboom, Theo E.; Pallis, Thanos; Rodrigue, Jean-Paul - In: Maritime economics & logistics 23 (2021) 2, pp. 179-210
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Hedging Effectiveness in Shipping Industry During Financial Crises
Samitas, Aristeidis - 2013
This paper investigates the significance of financial derivatives in shipping firms and its potential impact on their … firm value. The methodology applied in order to measure firms' value is Tobin's Q. The investigation whether shipping firms …. The sample of this study consists of shipping firms which are listed in US Stock Exchanges where the impact of financial …
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The blue maritime cluster crisis : financial instability and supply chain management effects
Koilo, Viktoriia; Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2019
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