Sustainable Governance and Responsive Regulation: The Higher Education Sector and Maritime Industry in Australia

• DOI: 10.20900/jsr20200023
• Publication Date: 2020-05-12T14:14:01Z
• Authors: Dianne Bolton; Terry Landells; Bradley Roberts
• Keywords: Stakeholder Engagement; Corporation; Collaborative Governance

The paper challenges traditional perspectives around the voluntary nature of a corporation’s social responsibilities in light debates responsive regulation that requires regulatory engagement by salient stakeholders processes and outcomes an organisation’s operations contemporary dynamic environments. In critiquing reform, highlights conditions cultures enhance collaborative practice to support more holistic appreciation risk, stakeholder corporate sustainability outcomes. These factors are seen as relevant sustainable governance enhancing licence operate for both regulator regulatees. insights help shape “responsive regulation” model achieve objectives partnerships organisational facilitates exploration behaviours, attitudes increasingly marketised higher education sector maritime industry. include: process promoting shared understanding industry-wide contextually nuanced pressures on regulators regulatees; addressing expectations concerning economic, social, environmental activity; ethics broad-based identifying problems; and, means achieving action attendant risks business processes. discusses opportunities, era capitalism, associated constitute significant mechanism whereby might be achieved.