As production and design disintegrate and become more collaborative, involving dynamic
relations between customers and firms supplying complex subsystems and service, products …

This paper explores how the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway applied dialogue as a key
feature in the regulatory strategy and practice over a ten-year period from 2009 to 2019. The …

In 2017, the The International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code)–a set
of function-based regulations applicable to Arctic and Antarctic waters, with the goal of …

This paper addresses the mechanisms, processes, and rationales for causal attribution,
blame, and liability within the legal context of Norwegian risk regulation, using the petroleum …

The 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA had wide-ranging consequences for security issues in
Western societies. Within civil aviation, the attacks became grim evidence that the security …

Abstract The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA‐N) has recently adopted a new
definition of risk:“the consequences of an activity with the associated uncertainty.” The PSA …

This chapter aims at capturing the distinct economic and institutional transformations that
takes place in the Nordic countries over the period and constituted the beginnings of a new …

As cumulative scientific evidence warns of devastating impacts without a fair phase-out of
fossil fuels, the Norwegian government handed out 62 new oil and gas licenses in 2024 and …

The aim of this chapter is to investigate the regulator–regulatee relationship and dialogue as
a policy instrument in the Norwegian oil and gas industry. Dialogue is used as a lens to shed …

The purpose of this paper is to explore power, sensemaking and identity construction within
a regulatory regime in the petroleum industry that emphasises dialogue and trust as a …