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Regulatory Compliance in the Global Shipping Industry

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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
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