Examines and evaluates a selected aspect of a regulatory system in a business context in a national location of your choice.
Examine the different meanings and limitations of regulation and regulatory factors in
your chosen regulatory system,
Discuss and evaluate the strategies that are designed to achieve compliance with the
regulatory requirements in that context.
- What is the regulatory context and what does regulation aim to achieve?
- If there is a public state regulator what are its priorities? What does it aim to achieve?
- What strategies or mechanisms does it have at its disposal? How does it use those mechanisms? How does the regulator aim to encourage compliant behaviour? How is the regulator perceived by the regulated community?
- If there is no public regulator, how is this ‘business context’ regulated? Is there self- regulation? Is private enforcement available?
- Is there a perception that the ‘business context’ is over or under regulated? What are the consequences of over or under regulation in this ‘business context’?
- What strategies are adopted by businesses to achieve compliance (or non-compliance) with regulatory requirements in this ‘business context’? What is considered ‘best practice’ in relation to compliance in this ‘business context’?
- What could be changed in this system to achieve more effective outcomes? Why do you think this would work?
What’s Expected? Demonstrate a reasonable depth of knowledge and understanding of your chosen area
of investigation.
Be able to identify possible deficiencies in the regulatory scheme and options for
reforming the scheme to address those deficiencies
Provide evidence of close reading and engagement with the literature you have
examined. This may include journal articles, book chapters, reports, documentation produced by regulators, and on-line sources which you have obtained through your own research in relation to the topic.
- · Provide a well-structured, well expressed discussion which follows a logical sequence.
- · Provide your own considered view of the issues you discuss.
- · It is also important that you comply with the word limit.
