This unit investigates how and why businesses respond to the multitude of efforts made to influence or 'regulate' their behavior for the social and economic good at the local, national, and global levels by means of government regulation, industry self-regulation and civil society voluntary codes of conduct, labeling and certification schemes. Regulating Business is a practical and interdisciplinary course that critically examines the typical policy assumption that regulation is enough on its own. Case studies and examples will come from both 'social regulation' (aimed at averting environmental catastrophe, preventing accidents and ill health in mines, factories, transport and food... -- Course Website
