Summary: Tony Porter conducts research on business regulation and global governance, including especially financial regulation, private and hybrid public/private rulemaking, the organizational effects in governance of technologies, and safety and environmental standards in the automobile industry. The path dependence and autonomy of the transnational regulatory arrangements in global finance are often underestimated because of the complexity and informality of these arrangements. The concept of assemblages is especially helpful in analyzing the way that the effects of these arrangements, and their significance for the power of financial actors, are shaped by interactions of a variety of actors and institutions with their own distinct purposes.
