Ship-Owners and the Twenty-First Century Somali Pirate: The Business Ethics of Ransom Payment

The attacks on commercial shipping vessels by Somali pirates have introduced a business dilemma for ship-owners. While maritime piracy has been outlawed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, ship-owners must determine whether to pay ransom demands to Somali pirates or not. There is...

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Authors: Lansing, Paul (Author) ; Petersen, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2011
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 102, Issue: 3, Pages: 507
Further subjects:B Ethics
B law of the sea
B Ransom
B Utilitarian
B Piracy
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