Seafarers' welfare is becoming a major issue for the international maritime community. This paper aims at examining the effect of welfare interventions onboard and ashore in the development and promotion of seafarers’ well-being. For this, it analyses the theoretical context of welfare and its...

The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm has been established as one of the main approaches to strategy formulation for the development of sustainable competitive advantage. Moreover, human resource management can be conceptualised as a source of competitiveness. This paper proposes that RBV...

The present paper examines the way Greek shipping companies and Greek seafarers perceive culture, and how this affects their approach to crew management and operation of the ships. The analysis focuses on the manning strategies employed by the companies, on the operational problems that might...