Better Business Regulation In A Risk Society

Author : Alberto Alemanno,Frank den Butter,André Nijsen,Jacopo Torriti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461444060

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Better Business Regulation in a Risk Society by Alberto Alemanno,Frank den Butter,André Nijsen,Jacopo Torriti Pdf

The premise of this volume is that business regulations are expected to grow in the near future as a consequence of the emergence of a “(world) risk society.” Risks related to terrorism, climate change, and financial crises, for example, will penetrate all conditions of life. Increasingly, the decisions and actions of some bring about risks for many in this era of globalization. Controlling these risks implies managing the world through high-quality regulation, with a particular emphasis on businesses and financial institutions. Central to this approach is the argument that a major, if not the primary, aim of regulation is to internalize externalities, or in a broader context, to repair market failure. Such repair can only be accomplished when the costs are smaller than the welfare gains. Featuring contributions from researchers and policy analysts from the fields of economics, management, law, sociology, political science, and environmental policy, this book focuses on three major topics: • Social risks and business regulation • Preconditions for better business regulation • Theoretical issues related to better business regulation Collectively, the authors demonstrate that the easier it is for regulated businesses to comply at the lowest costs possible—without jeopardizing the related public goals—the greater the degree of compliance. When successful, the net result is a balance of individual and collective net benefits, and by further implication, sustainable business practice and economic growth.

Author : Alberto Alemanno,Frank den Butter,André Nijsen,Jacopo Torriti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461444053

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Better Business Regulation in a Risk Society by Alberto Alemanno,Frank den Butter,André Nijsen,Jacopo Torriti Pdf

The premise of this volume is that business regulations are expected to grow in the near future as a consequence of the emergence of a “(world) risk society.” Risks related to terrorism, climate change, and financial crises, for example, will penetrate all conditions of life. Increasingly, the decisions and actions of some bring about risks for many in this era of globalization. Controlling these risks implies managing the world through high-quality regulation, with a particular emphasis on businesses and financial institutions. Central to this approach is the argument that a major, if not the primary, aim of regulation is to internalize externalities, or in a broader context, to repair market failure. Such repair can only be accomplished when the costs are smaller than the welfare gains. Featuring contributions from researchers and policy analysts from the fields of economics, management, law, sociology, political science, and environmental policy, this book focuses on three major topics: • Social risks and business regulation • Preconditions for better business regulation • Theoretical issues related to better business regulation Collectively, the authors demonstrate that the easier it is for regulated businesses to comply at the lowest costs possible—without jeopardizing the related public goals—the greater the degree of compliance. When successful, the net result is a balance of individual and collective net benefits, and by further implication, sustainable business practice and economic growth.

Author : André Nijsen,John Hudson,Christoph Müller,Kees van Paridon,R. Thurik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780387776781

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Business Regulation and Public Policy by André Nijsen,John Hudson,Christoph Müller,Kees van Paridon,R. Thurik Pdf

For years, businesses have complained about the costs of regulatory compliance. On the other hand, society is becoming increasingly aware of the environmental, safety, health, financial, and other risks of business activity. Government oversight seems to be one of the answers to safeguard against these risks. But how can we deregulate and regulate without jeopardizing our public goals or acting as a brake on economic growth? Many instruments are available to assess the effects of laws regulating business, including the regulatory impact assessment (RIA), which contains cost/benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, risk analysis, and cost assessments. This book argues that public goals will be achieved more effectively if compliance costs of the enterprises are as low as possible. Highlighting examples from a wide spectrum of industries and countries, the authors propose a new kind of RIA, the business impact assessment (BIA), designed to improve both business and public policy decision making.

Author : Maria Weimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191047190

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Risk Regulation in the Internal Market by Maria Weimer Pdf

This book offers a topical inquiry into the legal and political limits of EU regulation in the field of risk and new technologies surrounded by techno-scientific complexity, uncertainty, and societal contestation. It uses agricultural biotechnology as a paradigmatic example to illustrate the complex intertwinement between environmental, public health, economic and social concerns in risk regulation. Weimer analyses the drawbacks of the EU approach to agricultural biotechnology showing that its reductionism, i.e. the narrow understanding of GMO risks as well as the exclusion of broader societal concerns related to environmental and social sustainability, has undermined both the legitimacy and effectiveness of EU regulation in this area. Resistance to this approach however has also triggered legal innovations prompting us to re-think EU internal market law, including the way in which it manages the tensions between unity and diversity, and between social and economic concerns. This text offers fresh and original insights into how far the EU can go in harmonizing regulatory approaches to risk. At the same time, it proposes new ways of re-thinking EU risk regulation to make it more responsive to different perspectives on risk and technology. A unique feature of this book is that it contributes to various strains of scholarship including risk regulation, internal market law, public administration, and studies of governance and regulation, as well as connecting these themes to broader debates about the legitimacy of European integration and new ways of differentiated integration. As a result it assists in re-imagining the EU internal market and its regulation as a site of diversity.

Author : Emilia Mišćenić,Aurélien Raccah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319285962

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Legal Risks in EU Law by Emilia Mišćenić,Aurélien Raccah Pdf

This book takes a completely new and innovative approach to analysing the development of EU law. Within the framework of different important areas of EU law, such as the internal market, consumer protection law, social law, investment law, environment law, migration law, legal translation and terminology, it examines the Union’s approach to the regulation and management of legal risks. Over the years, the Union has come to a point where it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify its authority to regulate in various areas of law. In managing legal risks deriving from the diversity of Member States’ laws, which create barriers to trade and hinder the Union’s economy, the Union itself has actually produced new legal risks that now have to be addressed. This failure on the part of EU institutions to manage legal risks has contributed to legal uncertainty for actors operating on the internal market. This book intends to contribute to the Union’s smoother functioning and continuing development by proposing effective concrete solutions for managing the legal risks distorting the development of various areas of EU law. It pursues an innovative and effective approach to identify legal risks, their causes at the EU level and their impacts on the functioning of the Union and its Member States. By presenting new approaches in this context, the first book on legal risk management in the EU will actively promote the improvement of the EU lawmaking process and the application of EU law in practice.

Author : Tanja Ehnert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509908523

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The EU and Nanotechnologies by Tanja Ehnert Pdf

This book investigates the role of law in confronting major societal transformations embodied by the emergence of nanotechnologies. Taking the case of the European Union, it explores who the key decision-makers in the regulation of nanotechnologies are and how they take decisions. The questions are explored through two distinct case studies: the food and chemicals sectors. The book charts an incremental retreat of the European Union to its executive powers, including 'soft law' measures such as agencies' guidelines or implementing measures. This, the author argues, results in the Union's fundamental democratic control mechanisms, the EU legislature and the Court of Justice of the EU, being circumvented. The book recommends several immediate proposals to reform EU risk regulation, advocating a greater reliance on the European Parliament and outlining measures to increase the transparency of guidance drafting by EU agencies. This important work provides a timely examination of how emerging technologies pose both regulatory and democratic challenges.

Author : Ulrich Beck
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803983468

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Risk Society by Ulrich Beck Pdf

An analysis of the condition of Western societies that will take its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial, and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern

Author : Bridget M. Hutter,Joan O'Mahony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 0753017997

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The Role of Civil Society Organisations in Regulating Business by Bridget M. Hutter,Joan O'Mahony Pdf

Author : Barbara Hudson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0761961607

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Justice in the Risk Society by Barbara Hudson Pdf

In Justice in the Risk Society Barbara Hudson outlines traditional liberal perspectives on justice, risk and security, as well as addressing some key concerns. The book provides theoretical analysis with a discussion of policies, and arguments are illustrated by cases and examples.

Author : Ulrich Beck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319049908

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Ulrich Beck by Ulrich Beck Pdf

This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the core, signaling the end of an era in which comprehensive insurance could keep us safe. Due to its own successes, modern society now faces failure: while in the past experiments were conducted in a lab, now the whole world is a test bed. Whether nuclear plants, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology – if any of these experiments went wrong, the consequences would have a global impact and would be irreversible. Beck recommends ignoring the mathematical morality of expert opinions, which seek to identify the level of a given risk by calculating the probability of its occurrence. Instead, man’s fear of collapse should offer an opportunity for international cooperation and a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences.

Author : Ulrich Beck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745681627

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World at Risk by Ulrich Beck Pdf

Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide consequences that are difficult to control and politicians have been forced to accept that climate change is not idle speculation. In short, we have come to see that today we live in a world at risk. A new feature of our world risk society is that risk is produced for political gain. This political use of risk means that fear creeps into modern life. A need for security encroaches on our liberty and our view of equality. However, Beck is anything but an alarmist and believes that the anticipation of catastrophe can fundamentally change global politics. We have the opportunity today to reconfigure power in terms of what Beck calls a 'cosmopolitan material politics’. World at Risk is a timely and far-reaching analysis of the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global politics by one of the most original and exciting social thinkers writing today.

Author : Yousuf Aftab,Audrey Mocle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 0433478608

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Business and Human Rights as Law by Yousuf Aftab,Audrey Mocle Pdf

"This book is about corporate social responsibility and business & human rights. It discusses international law and how the emerging litigation thereof."--

Author : Debbie Thorne McAlister,Debbie M. Thorne,O. C. Ferrell,Linda Ferrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0618072160

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Business and Society by Debbie Thorne McAlister,Debbie M. Thorne,O. C. Ferrell,Linda Ferrell Pdf

A brief alternative to other texts, Business and Society provides an overview of corporate citizenship in 12 chapters, with 10 cases that cover small, large, and non-profit businesses. Students--both undergraduates and MBA majors--will gain the skills and background knowledge necessary to make informed opinions about how organizations implement various strategies to fulfill their social and financial goals.Opening vignettes profile an organization or situation relevant to each chapter' s main focus so that students can preview key concepts. The authors revisit the vignettes throughout to clarify the examples in light of new ideas.Experiential Exercises at the end of each chapter promote higher-level learning and require students to apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the concepts, practices, and benefits associated with corporate citizenship.The Instructor' s Resource Manual features several Behavioral Simulation Role-Playing Cases designed to develop teamwork and group decision-making skills.

Author : Felix Hufeld,Ralph S. J. Koijen,Christian Thimann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198788812

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The Economics, Regulation, and Systemic Risk of Insurance Markets by Felix Hufeld,Ralph S. J. Koijen,Christian Thimann Pdf

Pt. 1. The economics of insurance and the macroeconomic role of insurance -- What is insurance and how does it differ from general finance? / Christian Thimann -- The macroeconomic role of insurance / Denis Kessler, Amélie de Montchalin, and Christian Thimann -- How the insurance industry manages risk / Denis Duverne and John Hele -- pt. 2. Financial stability and the possibilities of systemic risk -- Risks of life insurers : recent trends and transmission mechanisms / Ralph S.J. Koijen and Motohiro Yogo -- Measuring systemic risk for insurance companies / Viral V. Acharya, Thomas Philippon, and Matthew Richardson -- Measuring interest rate risk in the life insurance sector : the U.S. and the U.K. / Daniel Hartley, Anna Paulson and Richard J. Rosen -- pt. 3. Regulation -- How the insurance industry's asset portfolio responds to regulation / Bo Becker -- Spillover effects of risk regulation on the asset side to asset markets / Andrew Ellul, Chotibhak Jotikasthira, and Christian T. Lundblad -- A regulatory framework for systemic risk in the insurance industry / Felix Hufeld -- pt. 4. Open questions going forward from the insurance sector -- The big questions for the insurance sector : findings from a survey of insurance companies / Luca Pancaldi and Uwe Stegemann

Author : Stephen A. Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350313880

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Social Work in a Risk Society by Stephen A. Webb Pdf

This path-breaking text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on contemporary social theory. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of governing ideas and practices in social work, it draws on themes from Beck, Giddens, Rose to explore the impact of risk society and neo liberalism on social work.