Industry Governance and Regulatory Compliance: A Theoretical and Practical Guide to European ICT Policy

This exceptional book is ideal for industry professionals, regulators and scholars in the domain of European regulatory governance. Amongst its many resources and informative features is a Regulatory Compliance Matrix with more than 1000 entries - a simplified but comprehensive guide to the laws, regulations, standards, and recommendations applicable to compliance programmes. What practitioners find inside will empower them to save thousands of euros, man-hours, and consultancy interventions. It also usefully guides regulators and scholars in understanding the complexities of European regulation and the important role industry plays.

Inside, the reader will find the following key resources:
• INDUSTRY GOVERNANCE THEORY: a new take on regulatory governance that gives insight into industry's pro-active role and predominating influence in shaping European public policy.
• REGULATORY COMPLIANCE MATRIX: a synopsis of the principal domains of regulation, setting forth legal norms, ancillary standards and guidelines.
• REGULATORY COMPLIANCE MATURITY MODEL: part of a novel toolkit for organisations to design and manage their compliance programmes more effectively.
• POLICY INFLUENCE-TIMING MODEL: a dynamic model of the public policy cycle empowering organisations to influence the outcomes of upcoming regulatory initiatives.
• STAKEHOLDER ACTION MATRIX: a map of stakeholders' engagement at all levels of governance, exhibiting their types and the channels through which they make the deepest impact on regulatory decisions.
• STAKEHOLDER DIRECTORY: a definitive compendium of potential allies and rivals who exercise the most influence over regulatory processes.
• EMPIRICAL RESEARCH METHODS: a background in survey techniques, participant observation, model evaluation, case studies, inferential logic, triangulation, and more.
• OTHER RESOURCES: including a comprehensive review of policy papers on European governance and ICT regulation put out by the European Commission, and a multidimensional Roadmap to the pan-European eComunications Framework Review.