What is it about?
In this article, we demonstrate that goals like safety and quality, management systems, daily practice and real outcome can become decoupled. We describe how public regulators can identify these forms of decoupling and that they can stimulate recoupling. Our findings inform institutional theory about new forms of decoupling and show practitioners how to use them.
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Why is it important?
Our research adds important insights in the sorts of problems which are preventing organizations from reaching their goals. Furthermore, it enables public regulators to develop much more effective regulation strategies.
Perspectives
Although actual acceptance of the manuscript and publication took quite a while, this article is very important for me personally. It explains quite clearly what I sense as a very respectful, constructive and effective new way of interaction between public regulators and regulated organizations. I hope this article contributes to another paradigm than the traditional, distrust based approach of regulation.
BSc MBA PhD Martin Anthonius de Bree
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
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This page is a summary of: De- and Recoupling and Public Regulation, Organization Studies, November 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0170840618800115.
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