Regulatory Choice for Alternative Modes of Regulation: How Context Matters

Saurwein, Florian

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9930.2011.00341.x

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“…A decentralized, inflexible structure can severely limit the ability of actors to cope with changing food safety risks [68,69]. Therefore, the government needs to construct a compact and flexible co-governance structure by employing different combinations of policy instruments that are based on the actual situation [70,71]. The lack of trust between actors in the food supply chain can seriously impede cooperation [21,38].…”

Section: Establishing a Compact And Flexible Regulatory Structurementioning

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Social Co-Governance for Food Safety Risks

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Sustainability

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We review relevant literature to propose the connotation and operation logic of food safety co-governance, systematically constitute by roles, functions, as well as the boundaries of public government, enterprise, and social forces. The major thesis is that social co-governance is a kind of societal-wide innovation (i.e., social innovation) that integrates diverse resources and efforts from multiple stakeholders for better and sustainable development of an economy’s food institution and system. We then put forward a prospect of the future research on food safety risk co-governance. Theoretical, practical, and policy implications are discussed.

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Section: Establishing a Compact And Flexible Regulatory Structurementioning

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“…Effective selfregulation may take place under the condition of economic and reputational selfinterest, a credible 'shadow of hierarchy', and intervention capacity of government [38]. In the US, these insights seem to take root in the sense that a move from voluntary, bottom up collaboration towards more hierarchical regulation in the shape of binding standards and reporting obligations is visible [28,39].…”

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“…A condition underlying effective self-regulation is that firms face economic and reputational incentives to invest in security and that market transparency exists to allow stakeholders to discipline firms who underperform [25,38]. Moreover, businesses tend to invest more in risk prevention measures when economic incentives are combined with pressure from the social environment of businesses [46].…”

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New governance of corporate cybersecurity: a case study of the petrochemical industry in the Port of Rotterdam

Erp

2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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The petro-chemical industry is a critical infrastructure that is vulnerable to cybercrime. In particular, industrial process control systems contain many vulnerabilities and are known targets for hackers. A cyberattack to a chemical facility can cause enormous risks to the economy, the environment, and public health and safety. This gives rise to the question how corporate cybersecurity has developed; how it is governed; and whether it should be subject to public oversight. This paper presents a case study of the governance of cybersecurity in the petrochemical industry in the Rotterdam Mainport area in the Netherlands, which reflects the 'new governance' view that cybersecurity can best be governed through voluntary public-private partnerships. The paper finds however that actual collaborative governance is not developing in the petrochemical industry in the port of Rotterdam; that corporate awareness and investment in cybersecurity stay behind standards, and that cybersecurity is not included in regulatory inspections. The paper places these findings in the context of three problems often associated with 'new governance' particularly pressing in cybersecurity governance: a weak role of government in publicprivate collaborative arrangements; an expectation that businesses will invest in self-regulation even in the absence of incentives to do so, and a lack of information exchange. In the port of Rotterdam, these problems result in a lack of obligations and accountability pressure on petrochemical corporations, leaving on of the most important chemical industrial hazards of today, largely unregulated. Crime Law Soc Change (2017) 68:75-93

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“…In such situations, VEPs may be used to test (future) policy interventions in an experimentalist manner, seeking to draw lessons on the impact of such (future) interventions (De Búrca and Scott, ). VEPs also provide an opportunity to showcase and market desired 'beyond compliance' behaviour, or a means of rewarding leading firms (Saurwein, ). VEPs further open up the opportunity to collaborate closely with the regulated sector without forcing the latter to be involved in such collaborations (Hofman and De Bruijn, ).…”

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What Roles are There for Government in Voluntary Environmental Programmes?

Heijden

2015

Env Pol Gov

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This article seeks to understand to a greater extent why and how governments are involved in voluntary environmental programmes (VEPs). A better understanding of the role(s) of government in VEPs is of relevance because the current VEP literature considers such involvement one of the key conditions that may explain VEP performance. Building on the existing VEP literature, the article maps, describes and contrasts the roles of governments in 40 VEPs in the building sector in Australia, the Netherlands, Singapore and the United States. It finds that governments are involved in almost all of these VEPs (95 per cent) and that governments predominantly take up traditional roles (i.e. initiating and leading VEPs and monitoring and enforcing VEPs), sometimes combined with innovative roles (i.e. supporting VEPs or assembling VEPs). This, the article argues, leaves opportunities for other modes of involvement unexplored, particularly those in which governments take up only innovative roles in VEPs.

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Regulatory Choice for Alternative Modes of Regulation: How Context Matters

Cited by 40 publications

References 79 publications

Social Co-Governance for Food Safety Risks

Social Co-Governance for Food Safety Risks

New governance of corporate cybersecurity: a case study of the petrochemical industry in the Port of Rotterdam

What Roles are There for Government in Voluntary Environmental Programmes?

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