Session Summary

Session Number:776
Session ID:S587
Session Title:Emerging Institutional Arrangements for Environmental Regulation
Short Title:Emerging Enviro. Regulations
Session Type:Division Symposium
Hotel:Swiss
Floor:4
Room:Neuchatel
Time:Tuesday, August 10, 1999 3:40 PM - 5:10 PM

Sponsors

ONE  (John Jermier)jermier@groucho.bsn.usf.edu (813) 974-1752 

General People

Chair King, Andrew  New York U. aking@stern.nyu.edu (212)-998-0288 
Discussant Piore, Michael J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology reesj@vt.edu 540-231-6034 

Submissions

Industry Self-Regulation: A Comparison of Nuclear Power and Chemical Manufacturing 
Presenter Rees, Joseph  Virginia Tech reesj@vt.edu 540-231-6034 
Environmental Contracts in the United States 
Presenter Orts, Eric  U. of Pennsylvania ortse@wharton.upenn.edu 215-898-3018 
The Effect of Environment Standards on Supply Chain Performance 
Presenter King, Andrew  New York U. aking@stern.nyu.edu (212)-998-0288 
Institutional Stability and Institutional Change: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications 
Presenter Furger, Franco  George Mason U. ffurger@osf1.gmu.edu 703-993-1322 

Abstract

The United States is engaged in an important experiment in social governance. Central to this experiment, is the belief that government should no longer directly regulate the behavior of firms. Instead, government should pursue a middle way between direct government regulation and laissez-faire inaction. Often, this middle way allows interested parties to collectively negotiate regulatory standards and form governing institutions. As a result, it opens up new roles and new opportunities for firms, governments, individuals and associations of all kinds. This new regulatory world poses both empirical and theoretical opportunities. Scholars can directly observe these arrangements as they emerge and change, making empirical study of the formation and modification of institutional arrangements unusually tractable, and the diversity of these new arrangements provides an opportunity to test theories of social governance. The participants in this symposium will present empirical research on new institutional forms of environmental regulation.