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Sist endret: 28. mai 2020, 11:22
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2020
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2020

How deregulation can become overregulation: An empirical study into the growth of internal bureaucracy when governments take a step back

Bidragsytere:
  • Kristine Vedal Størkersen
  • Trine Thorvaldsen
  • Trond Kongsvik og
  • Sidney Dekker

Tidsskrift

Safety Science
ISSN 0925-7535
e-ISSN 1879-1042
NVI-nivå 2

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2020
Publisert online: 2020
Volum: 128
Artikkelnummer: 104772
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85083425293

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Tittel

How deregulation can become overregulation: An empirical study into the growth of internal bureaucracy when governments take a step back

Sammendrag

Over the past decades, government safety management regulation has been driven by deregulation, simplification and organization-level regimes of inspection. So-called functional rule-making requires organizations to implement safety management systems appropriate for their operations. The paradox that seems to have arisen is that overregulation is common in many organizations. Research has found over-proceduralization, safety clutter, bureaucratic overload, and procedures not at the service of safety. To explore the paradoxical relationship between governmental deregulatory measures and organizational overregulation, we analyze empirical data from Norwegian fish farming and coastal transport. The data confirms that practitioners experience a rapidly grown abundance of internal rules and protocols, ill-fitting procedures, and pervasive, exaggerated safety management. We trace three mechanisms that have driven internal overregulation: work auditability; managerial insecurity and liability; and audit practices. These mechanisms show how functional regulation can have unintended consequences when it meets other accountability expectations. Expectations of market doctrine, bureaucratic entrepreneurism and control can lead a company transforming simple governmental regulations into vastly overcomplicated safety management systems. We conclude our study with prescriptions of how this aspect of safety could be done differently.

Bidragsytere

Kristine Vedal Størkersen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Studio Apertura ved NTNU Samfunnsforskning AS

Trine Thorvaldsen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Havbruk ved SINTEF Ocean

Trond Øystein Kongsvik

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Trond Kongsvik
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse ved Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

Sidney Dekker

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Technische Universiteit Delft
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Griffith University
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