Regulation under uncertainty: The coevolution of industry and regulation

Sabel, Charles; Herrigel, Gary; Kristensen, Peer Hull

doi:10.1111/rego.12146

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“…A functional approach explains the trend toward decentered regulation and the rise of meta‐regulation in terms of the drawbacks of command‐and‐control regulation. To flexibly regulate diverse entities (Carrigan & Coglianese, ; Parker, ) or cope with complex technology (Mills & Koliba, ), or ignorance and uncertainty (Sabel & Zeitlin, ; Sabel, Herrigel, & Kristensen, ), regulators must engage with and entrust stakeholders with regulatory tasks. Regulatory pluralism is also a functional response to the failures of “single‐instrument” approaches to regulation: “smart regulation” flexibly deploys a mix of both formal and informal regulatory instruments (Gunningham, Grabosky, & Sinclair, ).…”

Section: Existing Theories Of Changementioning

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Explaining Trends in Risk Governance: How Problem Definitions Underpin Risk Regimes

Ansell¹,

Baur²

2018

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Profound changes in risk regulation have been brewing over the last few decades. These changes include an explosion of new institutional forms and strategies that decenter risk regulation and introduce a role for meta-regulation, a growing reliance on risk-based analysis to organize decision making and management, an increasingly preventive approach to regulation that requires an expansion of surveillance to better characterize and monitor risks, and a sharpening of contestation over strategies for evaluating and responding to risk. We distill two perspectives from the existing literature on risk regulation that can plausibly provide overarching explanations for these trends. The first perspective explains these trends as a reflection of the refashioning of state, market, and society to privilege economic libertyan explanatory framework we call "neoliberal governmentality." The second perspective argues that these trends reflect practical demands for more efficient and effective risk regulation and management-an explanatory framework we refer to as "functional adaptation." The central purpose of this paper is to advance a third explanation that we call a "problem definition and control" approach. It argues that trends in risk regulation reflect interactions between how society defines risks and how regulatory regimes seek to control those risks.Explicando las tendencias de la gobernanza de riesgos: C omo las definiciones de los problemas est an detr as de los regímenes Se han estado gestando profundos cambios en la regulaci on de riesgos en las ultimas d ecadas. Estos cambios incluyen el surgimiento de nuevas formas y estrategias institucionales que descentralizan la regulaci on del riesgo y presentan la funci on de la meta regulaci on, una dependencia creciente del an alisis basado en riesgos para organizar la toma de decisiones y la gesti on, un acercamiento cada vez m as preventivo para la regulaci on que requiere una expansi on de la vigilancia para caracterizar y monitorear mejor los riesgos y un refinamiento de la contestaci on que tiene que ver con las estrategias que se utilizan para evaluar y responder al riesgo. Destilamos nos perspectivas de la literatura existente de la regulaci on de riesgos que puede posiblemente proporcionar explicaciones generales para estas tendencias. primera perspectiva explica estas tendencias como una reflexi on de la remodelaci on de un estado, mercado y sociedad para privilegiar la libertad econ omica-un marco te orico explicativo que llamamos "gobernabilidad neoliberal." La segunda perspectiva argumenta que estas tendencias reflejan exigencias pr acticas para una regulaci on de riesgos m as efectiva y eficiente-un marco te orico explicativo al que nos referimos como "adaptaci on funcional." El prop osito central de este documento es avanzar a una tercera explicaci on que llamamos un acercamiento de "definici on y control del problema." Argumenta que las tendencias en la regulaci on reflejan interacciones entre c omo la sociedad define los riesgos y c omo los regímenes regu...

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Section: Existing Theories Of Changementioning

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Explaining Trends in Risk Governance: How Problem Definitions Underpin Risk Regimes

Ansell¹,

Baur²

2018

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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“…For example, Jackson (1997) in his research on Academic regulation in UK higher education argues that regulation is a critical concept which is far more wide-ranging in scope and substance than the notion of quality assurance which it is identified with. Also, in the Oil and Gas industry, the findings of a study by Sabel, Herrigel and Kristensen (2014) points to the fact that the emergent task of collaborative regulation under uncertainties, necessitates its joint working relationship with individual organizations' systematic efforts to improve their resilience. In addition, in the telecoms industry, a report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), reveals that there is an overwhelming agreement by stakeholders that there is a pressing need for regulatory authorities to form collaborative relationships with industry actors especially as it concerns the present day (ITU News, 2016).…”

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“…In addition, in the telecoms industry, a report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), reveals that there is an overwhelming agreement by stakeholders that there is a pressing need for regulatory authorities to form collaborative relationships with industry actors especially as it concerns the present day (ITU News, 2016). As a result, organizations are required, to identify their vulnerabilities, as well as capabilities in order to ensure that the measures required to enhance resilience of supply operations are put in place accordingly (Sabel & Zeitlin, 2008;Sabel & Williams, 2011;Sabel, et al 2014). Peck (2005) in his research on the drivers of supply chain vulnerability, argues that it is when the supply chain ought to be in the established steady state that it is most vulnerable, since that is when it is most inclined to external pressures.…”

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Collaborative Regulation and Supply Chain Resilience: A Conceptual Paper

2018

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This paper is a conceptual study that introduces the role of collaborative regulation into the supply chain resilience debate. The manufacturing supply chain of halal pharmaceuticals in Malaysia forms the context of the paper. In this paper, a critical review of previous studies on supply chain resilience, joint working relationships between supply chain actors, and collaborative involvement of regulatory authorities in supply chain relationships was carried out. Collaborative regulation for improved supply chain resilience is the coordinated, consistent, and strategic activities that includes: effective, as well as regular coordination and interactions; knowledge and information sharing, verification, and periodical monitoring, as well as enforcement of collaborative approaches to policy and regulatory control mechanisms via coercive force of isomorphism. The arguments put forward, contribute to improving knowledge, by specifying the conditions in which supply chain resilience is stronger in highly regulated contexts. This is an aspect that is ill reflected in the supply chain management literature.

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“… See Sabel et al. () and Hoekman and Sabel () for additional discussion and references to the literature. …”

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Open Plurilateral Agreements, International Regulatory Cooperation and theWTO

Hoekman

Sabel

2019

Global Policy

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Sustained high growth in many developing countries (‘the rise of the rest’) combined with long‐standing World Trade Organization (WTO) working practices hamper the ability of the WTO to perform its routine functions and paralyze efforts to adapt to new circumstances. For want of an alternative, preferential trade agreements have taken up some of the slack in addressing differences in domestic regulation of product safety, environmental and social conditions, but these are exclusionary and inefficient from a global perspective. In this article, we argue that a new type of agreement based on open plurilateral cooperation offers better prospects for groups of countries to explore and develop their potential common interests on regulatory matters, while safeguarding core aspects of their national regulatory sovereignty and increasing the possibility of regenerating the WTO from within.

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Regulation under uncertainty: The coevolution of industry and regulation

Cited by 38 publications

References 57 publications

Explaining Trends in Risk Governance: How Problem Definitions Underpin Risk Regimes

Explaining Trends in Risk Governance: How Problem Definitions Underpin Risk Regimes

Collaborative Regulation and Supply Chain Resilience: A Conceptual Paper

Open Plurilateral Agreements, International Regulatory Cooperation and theWTO

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