This work reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies.In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinational...

How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental...

Regulation of business activity is nearly as old as law itself. In the last century, though, the use of regulation by modern governments has grown markedly in both volume and significance, to the point where nearly every facet of today's economy is subject to some form of regulation. When...