Intermediary roles in regulatory programs: Toward a role-based framework

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kourula, Arno; Paukku, Markus; Peterman, Andrew; Koria, Mikko
• 署名单位: University of Amsterdam; Aalto University; Stanford University; Loughborough University
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983
• DOI: 10.1111/rego.12226
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 141-156
• 关键词: responsive regulation; self-regulation; governance; network; collaboration; management; MODEL; LABOR; need

摘要

This paper develops a role-based framework of intermediaries in regulatory programs. In examining the types of roles that organizations adopt in regulation and governance, we argue that roles have important implications for understanding organizational and program level dynamism and outcomes. We use the Regulator-Intermediary-rule-Taker framework to describe how organizational roles can be adopted through assignment, appropriation, or promotion. We then go deeper into how intermediaries adopt a variety of different roles in key regulatory programs. We examine generic intermediary roles across programs that involve four main groups of activities: creating and/or organizing, coordinating between programs, supporting implementation, and voicing an opinion. All in all, our role-based framework allows for a novel relational way to understand interorganizational and institutional dynamism in complex, interactive, and ever-changing regulatory regimes.