Course content
Advanced Maritime Economics focuses on shipping company performance. The course analyses factors that influence shipping firms’ performance and explores the causes for performance differences. It qualifies students to engage in strategic management processes within shipping companies and prepares them for their subsequent work with their BSc theses.
Advanced Maritime Economics covers financial, environmental, and social dimensions of firm performance and discusses to what extent performance along these dimensions align or conflict. The course draws on different analytical lenses from strategic management, corporate finance, and sustainability studies and provides students with analytical tools that may help firms improve their performance.
In the course, students also learn how to evaluate the quality of maritime research. They learn how to apply the most common research quality criteria (i.e., reliability, validity, credibility, novelty, rigor, and significance) in assessments of maritime research. They get an opportunity to evaluate several studies on shipping company performance from the syllabus and design their own study on shipping company performance.
The course covers a broad spectrum of shipping segments, from container shipping over tankers and dry bulkers to shipping niches, and leverages on previous courses in the International Shipping and Trade program.
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