‘Real’ Regulation Reconsidered

Marden, Peter

doi:10.1068/a240751

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“…Indeed, '(a)lthough the process of corporate restructuring in retailing is clearly contingent upon the legislation which governs competition in the industry, corporate restructuring and its spatial expression, in turn, transform that regulatory environment' (Wrigley, 1992, p748). This leads one to a less rigid dichotomy between regulation as economic imperative and regulation as social practice -as Marden (1992) suggests, very much a false dichotomy as laws and regulations are continually re-interpreted and reviewed as conditions and political ideologies mutate over time (cf. Marsden and Wrigley, 1995;Marsden et al, 1998;Wrigley, 1993).…”

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Regulatory Constrained Portfolio Restructuring: The US Department Store Industry in the 1990s

Wood

2001

Environ Plan A

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The US department store industry has undergone a recent round of strategic acquisition-based portfolio restructuring. This paper analyses one such acquisition, studying how its geography is restructured in the premerger stage to conform to the Federal Trade Commission's 'fix-it-first' policy and to improve the strategic fit of the transaction. The article then investigates evidence, and analyses the effects, of a new era of stricter FTC enforcement, where divestiture may no longer be sufficient in cases of horizontal market overlap. Fundamentally, the paper considers the nature of 'real' regulation in action, as rules partially dictate investment decisions.

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Regulatory Constrained Portfolio Restructuring: The US Department Store Industry in the 1990s

Wood

2001

Environ Plan A

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“…It is neither founded on nor rests on a theory of state formation, and writers have sought to develop a complementary account of the state (Jessop, 1990;Hay, 1996). It is also insuf ciently ne-grained to address local experience (Munton, 1995) or the spatial and temporal dimensions of regulation (Marden, 1992). The concept of real regulation represents an effort to develop a complementary account of the state at a lower level of abstraction.…”

Section: Regulation: the State And Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reregulation and the Development of the New Zealand Wine Industry

Barker¹,

Lewis²,

Moran³

2001

Journal of Wine Research

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New Zealand's wine industry has enjoyed a period of rapid growth since the mid-1980s. This period of growth coincides with the period of trade liberalisation and other neo-liberal reforms to the state that have dominated New Zealand's social economy in the last two decades. Political commentators and economists have cited the growth of the wine industry as an example of the ef cacy of the reform programme. One account, prepared in the series Studies in APEC Liberalisation (the APEC report;Mikic, 1998), has proven to be particularly in uential. It attributes the wine industry's recent growth to the free trade policies that guide contemporary economic policy in New Zealand.In this paper, I use a critique of the APEC report as a heuristic device to develop a more re ned history of the New Zealand wine industry and its recent success, and the part played in these by regulatory change. The paper draws on an evolutionary perspective on industry development (Storper, 1997) and a real regulation conceptualisation of policy formation (Clark, 1992;Moran et al., 1996). It portrays the industry's development as occurring through enterprise choices that are embedded within a range of interconnected social and spatial contexts, of which the state forms an important part. I highlight the effects of technological change, the in uence of enterprise evolution, the geography of production, the wider suite of legislative changes affecting the industry and its internal formation. New Zealand wine enterprises have responded to changing production, market and regulatory conditions, as well as their own developmental trajectories.

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“…The theory provides a conceptual framework for understanding processes of capitalist growth, crisis, and reproduction. The theory is based upon recognition of capitalism's inherent instability, and argues that because of this instability, the perpetuation of the capitalist system depends upon periodic adjustments in social and economic relations in order to sustain accumulation (Marden 1992; Tickell and Peck, 1995; Cocklin and Blunden, 1998):…”

Section: Restructuring and The Regulation Approachmentioning

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Building Local Development Institutions in the Hinterland: A Regulationist Perspective from British Columbia, Canada

Markey¹

2005

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article examines the process of local development within the context of restructuring in hinterland British Columbia, Canada. The role of local development in the reconstruction of hinterland space is attracting considerable research attention, building upon an existing body of work from Canada and elsewhere, which is steadily refining our understanding of the local development process. Through a case study of two communities, this article seeks to enhance the theory–practice coordination of this work by using a regulation approach to examine the process, organizational structures and relationships inherent in local development. The communities in this study used local development both to pursue economic diversification and also to offset the uncertainty caused by economic and political restructuring. The findings illustrate that the case communities responded to restructuring in a systematic manner. This shows that the practice of local development may be related to theoretical interpretations of institution‐building. Regulation theory provides a framework within which to forge a link between the practical dimensions of the local development process and the concept of building local institutions. Specifically, the development of a local mode of social regulation is dependent upon the stability and coordination of a locally based development institution. Cet article examine le processus de développement local parallèlement à la restructuration de l’arrière‐pays en Colombie britannique (Canada). Le rôle du processus dans la reconstruction de cet espace soulève l’intérêt manifeste de chercheurs qui, ajoutéà un corpus de travaux émanant du Canada ou d’ailleurs, affine régulièrement notre appréhension du développement local. A partir d’une étude de cas portant sur deux communautés, l’article tente d’améliorer la coordination entre théorie et pratique de ce travail en utilisant la régulation comme démarche d’investigation des processus, structures organisationnelles et relations propres au développement local. Les communautés concernées se sont servies du développement local pour mener une diversification économique, tout en compensant l’incertitude née de la restructuration économique et politique. D’après les résultats, elles ont réagi de manière systématique à la restructuration, ce qui montre que l’on peut lier l’exercice du développement local à des interprétations théoriques de la création d’institutions. La théorie de la régulation offre le cadre oùétablir un lien entre les dimensions pratiques du processus et le concept de création d’institutions locales. Plus précisément, le développement d’un mode local de régulation sociale dépend de la stabilité et de la coordination d’une institution de développement basée localement.

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‘Real’ Regulation Reconsidered

Cited by 40 publications

References 23 publications

Regulatory Constrained Portfolio Restructuring: The US Department Store Industry in the 1990s

Regulatory Constrained Portfolio Restructuring: The US Department Store Industry in the 1990s

Reregulation and the Development of the New Zealand Wine Industry

Building Local Development Institutions in the Hinterland: A Regulationist Perspective from British Columbia, Canada

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