The ship" is a very unorthodox workplace due to numerous differences. The work and living spaces are one and the same, there is no place to go to relax when the work is over, family and friends are out of reach, and the organizational structure is almost military-like, with a high level of hierarchy. Ships are workplaces where working in harmony does not only affect the work performance, but the safety of life and goods on board, and the ship as well. However, despite these conditions that are the backdrop of conflict, the ship as a workplace and the reasons for conflict that arise among seafarers are yet to be studied in this literature. Due to these reasons, this study aims to identify the reasons for conflict in seafarers' workplace. For this aim, a semi-structured interview was carried out with officers who are actively working on board ships. A total of 18 interviews had been carried out, and in those interviews, total of 29 reasons for conflict have emerged. "culture-ethnicity-religion", "hierarchy", "food" and "working hours" were found to be the reasons that are on the forefront. Findings of the study show that there are various reasons for conflict that can only be seen in a unique workplace such as a ship. Identification of these reasons will help better understand the conflict situations on board ships as well as contribute to the workplace conflict literature.

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Conflicts, while being unavoidable in an unorthodox workplace such as the ship, might produce serious consequences. Therefore this study aims at to identifying and classifying the reasons and the consequences of conflict related incidents on board that have made the international news. For this aim twenty-two news articles on conflict related incidents have been gathered from eight maritime industry specific online news outlets and a content analysis has been carried out to illustrate the role of conflict in these news-worthy incidents. The results show that conflict can be observed in three categories: (1) Conflict between the crew members and the shipowner/ship management companies; (2) conflict between superiors and subordinates; and (3) conflict among crew members. In the first category, “unpaid wages” and “inadequate working conditions”, in the second category, “abuse of power and authority” and “intolerance to criticism”, and in the last category “fight among crew members” due to various reasons, such as ethnical differences and exclusion are found to be prevailing reasons for conflict situations that may result in dire consequences. Even though these incidents are irreversible, the content analysis carried out in this study highlights several policy implications that can be implemented to alleviate the intensity of conflict situation on board.

The aim of this study is to determine the factors that influence the probability of price bubble formation in the İstanbul Freight Index (ISTFIX). In this direction, firstly the price bubbles were determined by generalized sup augmented Dickey-Fuller (GSADF) test. Following the GSADF test, a logit regression model was established by creating dummy variables from bubble dates and it was tried to determine the factors affecting bubble formation. The dataset consists of 354 weekly observations and covers the dates between 18.03.2011 and 31.12.2017. According to the results, 4 bubble periods with lengths ranging from 6 to 12 weeks were detected. In the logit model, it was found that "euro" and "fuel price" variables increase the probability of bubble formation and the marginal effect of "euro" is much higher.

With ever rising number of shipyards and production capabilities, ship building in Turkey is a strategic industry that generates significant economic revenue. However, periodic recessions, one of the characteristics of the ship building industry, have had lingering effects since the 2008 crisis and caused business volumes to shrink and consequently inefficient use of resources. Therefore a data envelopment analysis was carried out covering the years 2005-2016 of Turkish ship building industry. The model of the study evaluates the efficiency of number of employees and project capacity on the two most important functions of a shipyard, the production and repair-maintenance services. Findings reveal that while the production function resourc been efficiently utilized after the crisis, repair-maintenance function has been efficiently utilized. The decrease of new building orders resulted in a downward usage of production resources, focus have shifted to repair-maintenance and these activities have been carried out with high levels of efficiency.