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Shipping: A Self-Organising Ecosystem

In: Maritime Informatics

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  • Richard T. Watson

    (University of Georgia)

  • Mikael Lind

    (Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and Chalmers University of Technology)

  • Nik Delmeire

    (European Inland Waterway Transport)

  • Fernando Liesa

    (ETP-Alice)

Abstract

Shipping, perhaps the original sharing economy, is a self-organising ecosystem (SOE). The maritime ecosystem is a capital creation process. It creates capital by moving products from the producer to consumer through a series of episodic tight couplings, such as a ship with a berth. Such coupling requires sharing data about the time, location, and intentions of a planned joint activity. In today’s world, we can picture an SOE as a network of digital objects communicating via standardised digital data streams. Innovation within an SOE is particularly challenging because there is usually no central player who can direct change. Occasionally, there can be interventions, such as the International Maritime Organization (IMO), dictating the adoption of the automatic identification system (AIS), which was the seed innovation for kick-starting digitised shipping. A seven-layer model for advancing Maritime Informatics innovation is introduced. Digitisation and Maritime Informatics create opportunities for new structures for capital creation.

Suggested Citation

  • Richard T. Watson & Mikael Lind & Nik Delmeire & Fernando Liesa, 2021. "Shipping: A Self-Organising Ecosystem," Progress in IS, in: Mikael Lind & Michalis Michaelides & Robert Ward & Richard T. Watson (ed.), Maritime Informatics, pages 13-32, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-030-50892-0_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50892-0_2
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