ABSTRACT

During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both regulation and deregulation. This set of papers written by a distinguished selection of international experts examines the nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its impact on social and economic equality. It draws on social theory concerned with the nature of regulation and order in modern societies as well as providing as a series of detailed analyses of particular forms of regulatory regimes in national and international contexts. The book should be of particular interest to management and business researchers, sociologists and political economists concerned with the process of regulation and its impact on organisations and management.

chapter 1|14 pages

Regulation and organizations

An introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Concepts of regulation, rules and control

chapter 2|33 pages

From the ‘cage’ to the ‘gaze’?

The dynamics of organizational control in late modernity

part |2 pages

Part II Regulatory regimes and governance

chapter 4|13 pages

Deregulation and embeddedness

The case of the French banking system

chapter 5|24 pages

Regulatory regimes

part |2 pages

Part III The evolution of regulatory processes

chapter 8|21 pages

Regulation as a response to critical events

A century of struggle for the Swedish auditing profession

chapter 9|25 pages

Regulatory compliance

part |2 pages

Part IV Regulation, power and inequality

chapter 11|19 pages

The regulation of retail financial services in Britain

An analysis of a crisis

chapter 12|18 pages

Price structures in UK utilities

Responses to deregulation

chapter 13|23 pages

Regulating money laundering

A case study of the UK experience