How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental...

This work reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies.In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinational...