Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- European Science Foundation -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Regulation and organizations: An introduction -- Part I Concepts of regulation, rules and control -- 2 From the 'cage' to the 'gaze'? The dynamics of organizational control in late modernity -- 3 Rules as a mode of economic governance -- Part II Regulatory regimes and governance -- 4 Deregulation and embeddedness: The case of the French banking system -- 5 Regulatory regimes -- 6 Is the German model of corporate governance changing? -- Part III The evolution of regulatory processes: Formal and informal mechanisms of change -- 7 The regulation of price-sensitive information -- 8 Regulation as a response to critical events: A century of struggle for the Swedish auditing profession -- 9 Regulatory compliance -- 10 Regulation in network industries -- Part IV Regulation, power and inequality -- 11 The regulation of retail financial services in Britain: An analysis of a crisis -- 12 Price structures in UK utilities: Responses to deregulation -- 13 Regulating money laundering: A case study of the UK experience -- Index