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Self-Regulation in the Regulatory Void: "Blue Moon"or "Bad Moon"? 3 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am

Corporate self-regulation has been blamed for many of the worst environmental and financial catastrophes of the twenty-first century, but the failure of self-regulation in these catastrophes has been ...

Three Risks, One Solution? Exploring the Relationship between Risk and Regulation 3 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am

The risks at the heart of regulation are most often understood as unwanted by-products of an essentially productive endeavor. They are to be captured and managed through dedicated technical and bureau...

Voting with Your Fork? Industrial Free-Range Eggs and the Regulatory Construction of Consumer Choice 3 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am

Labeling and information disclosure to support consumer choice are often proposed as attractive policy alternatives to onerous mandatory business regulation. This article argues that choices available...

Innovation-Framing Regulation 3 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am

This article provides insights into the effective regulation of private sector innovation. It coins a term—"innovation-framing regulation"—to describe a particular quality of much of financial regulat...

Regulating Performance-Enhancing Technologies: A Comparison of Professional Cycling and Derivatives Trading 3 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am

This article compares the efforts to govern performance enhancement technologies in two seemingly different competitive arenas—financial markets and professional cycling—where the pressures to outperf...

Enforcing Food Quality and Safety Standards in Brazil: The Case of COBRACANA 3 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am

In numerous product lines, globalization of production has been accompanied by increasingly austere product quality and safety regulations. These regulations are particularly stringent in the food and...

Resilience in the Middle: Contributions of Regulated Organizations to Regulatory Success 3 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am

We generally think of regulations as being applied to regulated organizations, which are then expected to comply with those regulations. Yet this way of thinking often misunderstands regulated organiz...

Constructing Consequences for Noncompliance: The Case of Academic Laboratories 3 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am

We examine academic research laboratories as examples of intractable governance sites. These spaces often elude regulatory warnings and rules because of the professional status of faculty members, the...

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