This paper explores the reasons of hazardous organizations for responding to state rules requesting them to report untoward events to public regulators. The literature on external reporting of untoward events remains remarkably limited, and this paper contributes to it by providing a rare...

The article intends to present the debate on behaviour modification in the regulation studies literature, at a time of renewed interest among regulators for new ideas and strategies. As the financial crisis has led to the most public critique yet of the rational choice view of individuals that...

Recent institutionalist scholarship has established links between the liberalization or “disorganization” of capitalism and shifts in economic actors' “logic of action” towards opportunism. Yet, a more general theoretical treatment of “logics of actions” and their links to specific...

This paper presents a theoretical framework for analysing regulatees' responses to behavioural expectations set for them in public regulation. It identifies the main variables and mechanisms through which regulatory policy may influence individual choices. The article builds on Siegwart...

This report consists of a literature review identifying a series of mechanisms by which regulation affects innovation. These were: compliance costs, effects on incentives, effects on market conditions, capacity effects, signalling effects. The report also explores 4 case study innovations:...

This review looks at how behavioural insight is used in the design of alternatives to regulation and how this can improve compliance and participation. The evidence was varied and diverse, but some key levers that could be used to increase the success of a policy initiative included: engaging...

This research identifies best practices and practical considerations for regulatory applications of emerging technologies. The 12 case studies discussed within this report cover a range of regulatory functions, sectors and technologies. Based on this, the report sets out a road map of best...

This study investigates global economies whose regulatory regimes are leading in area-specific outcome measures. The research focussed on 3 themes in its comparison of the UK with these other world-leading regimes: the effects of rules-based versus principles-based approaches to regulating, the...