Regulatory Compliance in the Global Shipping Industry
http://sls.sagepub.com/content/22/2/171.short 1/1 Search all journals Advanced Search Search History Browse Journals Impact Factor: 0.489 | Ranking: 38/52 in Criminology & Penology | 53/92 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary | 91/134 in Law | 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.773 Source: 2012 Journal Ci tati on Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2013) Social & Legal Studies sls.sagepub.com Published online before print January 10, 2013, doi: 10.1177/0964663912467814 Social Legal Studies June 2013 vol. 22 no. 2 171-189 Room for Manoeuvre? Regulatory Compliance in the Global Shipping Industry Michael Bloor Cardiff University, UK Helen Sampson Cardiff University, UK Susan Baker Cardiff University, UK David Walters Cardiff University, UK Katrin Dahlgren U&W, Sweden Emma Wadsworth Cardiff University, UK Philip James Oxford Brookes University, UK Michael Bloor, Seafarers International Research Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK. Email: BloorMJ@cf.ac.uk Abstract This article combines data from two separate studies of the shipping industry, one on enforcement of new regulations on the use of low-sulphur fuel and one on supply chain influences on ship operators health and safety policies and practices. The shipping industry is a valuable natural laboratory for the study of patterns of compliance and governance in late modernity because it is characterised both by highly developed polycentric governance structures and by globalising economic processes including vertically disaggregated global value chains, outsourcing and offshoring. Segmented markets have permitted some blue riband companies to operate a social license beyond compliance, and that such social licenses are more extensive in respect of environment policies than in health and safety policies that may be attributed to supply chain influences. Ship operators compliance is seen as a combination of instrumental compliance, normative compliance, a taken for granted culture of compliance and corporate policies of labour-force governance. A taken for granted culture of compliance is identified as the main reason for compliance with the new low- sulphur regulations, which are currently (uncharacteristically) subject to only limited enforcement effort. Compliance global governance polycentric governance seafarers health and safety Articles citing this article Making Headway? Regulatory Compliance in the Shipping Industry Social & Legal Studies April 23, 2014 0: 0964663914529684v1- Sign In | My Tools | Contact Us | HELP