Purpose

This study aims to review and try to understand the importance of complexity management for maritime business to gain competitiveness in global business environment. The purpose of the study is to discuss and evaluate managing change and requirements of understanding the complexity management.

Design/methodology/approach

To find peer-reviewed journal publications, a large scientific database used by searching Web of Science and Scopus as the most relevant abstract and citation databases that provide peer-reviewed literature data for many different academic disciplines and selected papers evaluated from the maritime business context.

Findings

As a conceptual paper, the contribution of the study is to offer practical/required management applications with the help of six proposes for making better management decisions to confront future challenges to catch organizational competitiveness and success. With adaptation of complexity management, maritime stakeholders able to create an important core competency.

Research limitations/implications

The research has some limitations and further research into this area should be extended. This study is designed as a first step to provide an insight to the field and to understand the main views of the subject. Subsequently, complexity management in maritime business is a slightly deficient area of research, which offers remarkable research opportunities. First, it would be fruitful to collect qualitative data to examine the current issues and changing business environment of the maritime business. Second, it would be helpful develop quantitative models to offer practical solutions from the maritime stakeholders’ point of view according to loading/discharging/transportation requirements. Future studies should deepen the subject with the help of simulation models of operations or agent based applications of stakeholder problems or vessel/ship-owner management implementations to understand changing circumstances of new business environment for the sake of managing complexity.

Practical implications

As the core point of view in strategic management; “achieving and sustaining” competitive advantage in organizations always takes an important place in organizational survival. With the help mentioned proposes stakeholders of the system could understand the ways of dealing with the complexities of new business world which enhances organizational competitiveness.

Social implications

Maritime business could be defined as a social ecosystem which has it is own dynamics and customs. Socio-eco systems, like all complex systems, show unique non-linear dynamics in space and time which could be tough to define via classical quantitative methods. Organizations co-exist and co-evolve with their environment. It is possible that organizations effect their environment and gain some control over it while at the same time affected from environment and should steer the new trends.

Originality/value

The originality of the study lies in highlighting the importance of change management as a handler of complexity management for maritime business. The contribution of the paper is to indicate expected opportunities and challenges of smart changes for relevant readiness of maritime business for better management decisions, benefiting maritime business stakeholders by simultaneously enhancing effectiveness to confront future demands to achieve organizational competitiveness. With the help of proper complexity management lenses organizations could able to create their source of competitive advantage that represents capacity to align and enable required functions under tough contextual environment.

中文翻译：

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管理海上业务的复杂性：了解全球化的明智变化

目的

这项研究旨在回顾并试图理解复杂性管理对于海事业务在全球商业环境中获得竞争力的重要性。该研究的目的是讨论和评估管理变更以及了解复杂性管理的要求。

设计/方法/方法

要查找经过同行评审的期刊出版物，这是一个大型的科学数据库，用于搜索Web of Science和Scopus，作为最相关的摘要和引文数据库，该数据库为许多不同学科的学科提供经过同行评审的文献数据，并提供从海运业务环境中评估的精选论文。

发现

作为概念文件，该研究的贡献在于借助六项建议制定实用/所需的管理应用程序，以制定更好的管理决策以应对未来挑战，以抓住组织的竞争力和成功。通过适应复杂性管理，海上利益相关者能够创建重要的核心竞争力。

研究局限/意义

该研究有一些局限性，应在这一领域进行进一步的研究。这项研究的第一步是提供对该领域的见解并了解该主题的主要观点。因此，海运业务中的复杂性管理是一个稍微不足的研究领域，它提供了非凡的研究机会。首先，收集定性数据以检查海运业务的当前问题和不断变化的商业环境将是富有成果的。其次，根据装载/卸载/运输要求，从海上利益相关者的角度出发，开发定量模型以提供实用的解决方案将是有帮助的。

实际影响

作为战略管理的核心观点；组织中“实现和维持”竞争优势始终在组织生存中占有重要地位。借助所提建议，系统的利益相关者可以理解应对新业务世界复杂性的方法，从而增强组织竞争力。

社会影响

海上贸易可以被定义为具有自身动态和习惯的社会生态系统。像所有复杂系统一样，社会生态系统在空间和时间上表现出独特的非线性动力学，这很难通过经典的定量方法来定义。组织与环境共存并共同发展。组织有可能在影响环境的同时获得一些控制权，同时又受到环境的影响，并应引导新的趋势。

创意/价值

该研究的独创性在于强调变更管理作为海事业务复杂性管理处理程序的重要性。本文的目的是指出智能变革的预期机遇和挑战，以期使海事企业为更好的管理决策做好准备，并通过同时增强应对未来需求的有效性来使海事利益相关者受益，以实现组织竞争力。借助适当的复杂性管理镜头，组织可以创建自己的竞争优势来源，以表示在艰难的上下文环境中调整并启用所需功能的能力。