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Telecommunications regulation : culture, chaos, and interdependence inside the regulatory process / Clare Hall, Colin Scott, and Christopher Hood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Clare, 1960-
- Series:
- Routledge advances in management and business studies.
- Routledge advances in management and business studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telecommunication--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- Telecommunication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Telecommunications Regulation; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; 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: organizing 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; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-243) and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-14362-2
- 0-203-98453-6
- 9780203984536
- OCLC:
- 475944009
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