During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both regulation and deregulation. This set of papers (1999) written by a distinguished selection of international experts examines the nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its impact on social and economic equality.

1. Regulation and Organizations: An Introduction Glenn Morgan and Lars Engwall Part 1. Concepts of Regulation, Rules and Control 2. From the ‘Cage’ to the ‘Gaze’? The Dynamics of Organizational Control in Late Modernity Michael Reed 3. Rules as a Mode of Economic Governance Anna Grandori, Guiseppe Soda and Alessandro Usai Part 2. Regulatory Regimes and Governance 4. Deregulation and Embeddedness: The Case of the French Banking System Danielle Salomon 5. Regulatory Regimes Lars Engwall and Glenn Morgan 6. Is the German Model of Corporate Governance Changing? Nestor D’Alessio and Herbert Oberbeck Part 3. The Evolution of Regulatory Processes: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Change 7. The Regulation of Price-Sensitive Information John Holland 8. Regulation as a Response to Critical Events: A Century of Struggle for the Swedish Auditing Profession Eva Wallerstedt 9. Regulatory Compliance Glenn Morgan and Kim Soin 10. Regulation in Network Industries Staffan Hulten and Claes-Frederik Helgesson Part 4. Regulation, Power and Inequality 11. The Regulation of Retail Financial Services in Britain: An Analysis of a Crisis Michael Clarke 12. Price Structures in UK Utilities: Responses to Deregulation Catherine Waddams Price 13. Regulating Money Laundering: A Case Study of the UK Experience Prem Sikka and Hugh Willmott