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作者:Lee, Eungkyoon
作者单位:University of Hong Kong
摘要:This research examines the potential of information disclosure for environmental regulation. The research attempts to answer questions of what impact information disclosure has on corporate environmental practices and what interferes with its effective use. A case study of Indonesia's pioneering informational environmental regulation reveals (i) both indirect (e.g. anticipation of external pressure) and direct (e.g. internal learning support) informational effects that enhance environmental aw...
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作者:Weimer, David L.
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要:Medical governance should secure and apply appropriate expertise, accommodate stakeholder interests, and promote social values. The most common form of governance, public (agency) rulemaking by government agencies, usually involves supplementing in-house expertise through advisory committees. An alternative, private (stakeholder) rulemaking, involves delegating the authority for developing rules directly to stakeholders, who often command relevant expertise, including that arising out of tacit...
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作者:Martin, Cathie Jo; Knudsen, Jette Steen
作者单位:Boston University; Copenhagen Business School
摘要:In this article we examine how post-industrial Britain and Denmark undertake vocational training for low-skilled retail workers. Specifically, we evaluate whether leaders in training skilled industrial workers are also doing the best job with low-skilled service workers. While Danish retail is increasingly becoming a haven for low-skilled workers, British workers are gaining in skills levels with the transition to services even in the retail sector. While some suggest that social democratic co...
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作者:Hahn, Robert; Litan, Robert; Singer, Hal
作者单位:University of Manchester; University of Oxford; Georgetown University; Brookings Institution
摘要:The ultimate formulation of the Federal Communications Commission's nondiscrimination on the Internet principle could have a significant impact on economic welfare and on innovation. In this article, we explain the economics of discrimination as it applies to the Internet, and we offer a new approach for identifying anticompetitive discrimination. Our proposal would require a complaining content provider to prove (i) the broadband service provider has discriminated in favor of some affiliated ...
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作者:Koutalakis, Charalampos; Buzogany, Aron; Boerzel, Tanja A.
作者单位:Free University of Berlin; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
摘要:Recent debates regarding the effectiveness of regulatory policymaking in the European Union (EU) focus on the merits of soft, non-binding forms of regulation between public and private actors. The emergence of less coercive forms of regulation is analyzed as a response to powerful functional pressures emanating from the complexity of regulatory issues, as well as the need to secure flexibility and adaptability of regulation to distinctive territorial economic, environmental, administrative, an...