Hall / Hood / Scott Telecommunications Regulation

Culture, Chaos and Interdependence Inside the Regulatory Process
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-63732-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Clare

Hood, Christopher

Scott, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction

1. Ducts, poles and holes in the ground: the inner world of telecommunications regulation

2. The archaeology of a regulatory regime

Part II: Culture and regulation

3. Peculiar place, peculiar culture: organising and structuring the regulatory office

Part III: The absolutist myth in regulation

4. 'Oftel c'est moi': the role of the individual DGT

5. Oftel in space: interdependence and accountability

Part IV: Decision-making

6. Regulatory decision styles

7. Price controls and numbering administration: Cartesian-bureaucratic issue-processing episodes

8. Regulating anti-competitive conduct and not regulating hotel phone pricing: adhocratic-chaotic issue-processing episodes

9. Complaint-handling, licence enforcement and anti-competitive conduct II: bargaining-diplomatic issue-processing episodes

Part V: Lessons learnt

10. Regulatory science, regulatory policy and possible regulatory futures

Epilogue - OFTEL's fourth life-stage? New director general, New Labour, new rules of the game

Glossary

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