Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303329 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
LEQS Paper No. 46
Publisher: 
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), European Institute, London
Abstract: 
In the public policy literature, there is a widespread belief that industry self-regulation would only take place—and lead to satisfactory results—if industry was faced with a credible threat of hierarchical government intervention. At the example of intermodal transport standardization, however, this paper demonstrates that this does not have to be the case. It may even have a counterproductive effect by exposing self-regulatory processes to political contestation.
Subjects: 
Shadow of hierarchy
self-regulation
private governance
technical standardization
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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