Flexible Theory and Flexible Regulation: Collaboration and Competition in the McLaren Vale Wine Industry in South Australia

Haughton, Graham; Browett, John

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“…The consensus suggests that flexible regulation enables a firm to take either the dynamic and innovative route, or the reactionary route deploying conventional tactics (Haughton and Browett, 1995;Lopez-Gamero et al, 2010). On the other hand inflexible regulations, through tight prescription, are likely to stifle innovation-encouraging compliance.…”

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“…Specifically: (1) inflexible regulations are likely to encourage firms to pursue costly compliance; (2) flexible regulations, along with other pressures that exist to improve environmental performance, provide firms with the opportunity to respond dynamically, and help them to innovate and invest in sound EMPs, potentially improving their financial performance while simultaneously improving their environmental performance; (3) alternatively, despite the presence of flexible regulations, firms can take a reactionary attitude and improve their environmental performance via costly pollution-control methods that ultimately harm their financial performance (Black et al, 2010;Christmann, 2000;Haughton and Browett, 1995;Klassen and Whybark, 1999;Lopez-Gamero et al, 2010;Majumdar and Marcus, 2001). This paper now seeks to address the appropriateness of these broad a priori assumptions for thinking about environmental regulations and their effects on regulated firms.…”

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Environmental regulations, innovation and firm performance: A revisit of the Porter hypothesis

Ramanathan

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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This paper examines the relationships between environmental regulations, firms' innovation and private sustainability benefits using nine case studies of UK and Chinese firms. It aims to unravel the mechanisms by which a firm's environmental behaviour in improving its private benefits of sustainability is influenced by its relationship with the government, which primarily enacts regulations to maximise public sustainability benefits in the interests of society as a whole. The paper takes its cue from the Porter hypothesis to make some broad preliminary assumptions to inform the research design. A conceptual framework was developed through inductive case studies using template analysis. The results show that depending on firms' resources and capabilities, those that adopt a more dynamic approach to respond to environmental regulations innovatively and take a proactive approach to manage their environmental performance are generally better able to reap the private benefits of sustainability.

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Section: Condition 1: the Design Of Environmental Regulationsmentioning

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Environmental regulations, innovation and firm performance: A revisit of the Porter hypothesis

Ramanathan

Black

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…3. Some regulationist studies of advanced industrialized countries include Aglietta (1976), Moulaert and Swyngedouw (1989), Fagan and Le Heron (1994), Peck and Miyamachi (1994), Haughton and Browett (1995), and Peck and Tickell (1995). A few recent studies of economic restructuring in Eastern European and East Asian countries have also adopted the regulationist perspective (e.g.…”

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The Evolution of Modern Demography and the Debate on Sustainable Development

Laughlìn

1999

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“…This is not just a matter of 'how much' flexibility there is in the economy, or even of the direction of change. As Haughton and Browett (1995) have demonstrated, much of the 'new' flexibility has been around for decades, changes representing a 'state of mind' as much as a coherent shift in the production system. Firms' desires for flexibility, Gertler (1992, page 260) points out, "have not been fully requited.…”

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“…If regulation theory is to be spatialised, it must loosen its exclusive grip on the nation-state: although the nation-state will no doubt continue to be one of the key arenas of struggle, this may not be the scale at which future institutionbuilding is rooted. The question of functionality in accumulation-regulation relationships consequently needs to be opened up at other spatial scales (see Haughton and Browett, 1995;Moulaert et al, 1992;Peck and Tickell, 1992).…”

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The Social Regulation of Uneven Development: ‘Regulatory Deficit’, England's South East, and the Collapse of Thatcherism

1995

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Abstract. The evolving methodology of regulation theory is explored, with particular reference to the problematic of uneven development. With a concentration on the subnational scale, the notion of localised modes of regulation is critically examined. With a view to operationalising some of these regulationist concepts, an analysis of the geographical contradictions of Thatcherism is presented. Thatcherism, it is suggested, should be interpreted as a failed or failing regulatory experiment, the contradictions of which are manifest in a variety of ways, including in the geographical sphere-in the collapse of the economy of the South East of England (Thatcherism's 'heartland' region) and in Britain's continuing crisis of uneven development. There is scope, it is argued, further to spatialise regulation theory through methodological refinement, and through analyses of regional restructuring and crisis."When crises endure, orthodoxies fade" (Boyer, 1990, page xxiii).Regulation theory has been enormously influential in recent years, providing as it does a means for interpreting-possibly even responding to-the present global economic malaise. We will argue here that a regulation approach can continue to yield insights into contemporary restructuring processes, but that in order to do so the theory itself needs to be refined. We consider two areas in which some further theoretical development is needed. First, the theory's rather abstract conception of social regulation must be unpacked, and analytical tools developed which are appropriate for concrete research. Second, the theory is articulated primarily at the level of the nation-state and contains no explicit conception of uneven spatial development. This void must be filled if regulation approaches are to be deployed at either the subnational or the supranational scales of analysis. By clarifying some of the more important regulationist concepts and propositions, by providing some pointers for further theoretical development, and by focusing on the question of the social regulation of uneven development at the subnational scale, we hope in this paper to make a constructive contribution to regulationist research. In so doing, we aim also to shed new light on the current debates around flexible accumulation and the politics of post-Fordism, in which the implications of regulationist approaches have sometimes been misread.Popularised in analyses of the breakdown of Fordism and, more controversially, the rise of a potential successor-regime of flexible accumulation, regulation-theoretic approaches have been much used, though perhaps just as often abused. Certainly the terminology of regulation theory has passed easily into mainstream academic discourse. Devices such as regimes of accumulation and modes of social regulation are, however, more than labels. Too often they have been casually applied, robbed of their underlying meaning, and misleadingly divorced from the conceptual architecture of regulation theory, nowhere more so than in premature treatments of

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Flexible Theory and Flexible Regulation: Collaboration and Competition in the McLaren Vale Wine Industry in South Australia

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

Environmental regulations, innovation and firm performance: A revisit of the Porter hypothesis

Environmental regulations, innovation and firm performance: A revisit of the Porter hypothesis

The Evolution of Modern Demography and the Debate on Sustainable Development

The Social Regulation of Uneven Development: ‘Regulatory Deficit’, England's South East, and the Collapse of Thatcherism

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