Businesses' Views on Red Tape [electronic resource] : Administrative and Regulatory Burdens on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
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 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2001.
 Businesses' Views on Red Tape provides the first opportunity to systematically compare data across 11 OECD countries. The data show how small and medium-sized enterprises perceive national administrative and regulatory costs. Regulations and government formalities, so-called ""red tape"", are important tools used by governments to carry out public policies in many policy areas, including safety, health, and environmental protection. However, if they are poorly designed or applied, inefficient, or outdated, they can impede innovation, entry, investment, and create unnecessary barriers to trade
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""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""I. Introduction""; ""1. The importance of regulatory burdens""; ""2. The difficulties of measuring regulatory costs""; ""Box 1. Main categories of regulatory burdens""; ""3. OECD work on measuring the compliance costs of regulations and formalities: the launching of a...""; ""4. The limitations and advantages of large-scale business surveys""; ""Box 2. Approaches to measuring administrative compliance costs""; ""5. Main characteristics of the OECD Business Survey""
""Table 1. Size of the sample and response rate by country and by regulatory area""""II. Results from the Survey""; ""1. Direct administrative compliance costs""; ""The results from the OECD survey show that administrative compliance costs are substantial and economically significant""; ""There is also a disproportionate impact on smaller companies""; ""Figure 1. Aggregate annual compliance costs â€? average per SME per country""; ""Figure 2. Aggregate compliance costs â€? average per employee per firm by country""
""Figure 3. Aggregate annual administrative costs by regulatory area â€? average all countries""""Box 3. Some causes of the â€œregressiveâ€? impact of administrative compliance costs on SMEs""; ""Figure 4. Annual administrative costs per employee by company size â€? average all countries""; ""Figure 5. Effect of company size and sector on per-employee compliance costs for environment reg...""; ""Some service sector companies experienced a higher level of administrative compliance costs than did manufacturing companies""
""Administrative compliance costs represented a significant proportion of companiesâ€? revenues""""Figure 6. Aggregate total annual administrative costs by economic sector â€? average all countries""; ""Figure 7. Annual administrative costs per employee by economic sector â€? average all countries""; ""Figure 8. Total administrative compliance costs as a percentage of annual turnover by country""; ""In summary, administrative compliance costs represented a significant proportion of economic resources""
""Figure 9. Economy-wide SME costs of regulatory administrative compliance as percentage of busine...""""These costs were likely to be an under-estimate""; ""Companies believed that administrative compliance costs were increasing""; ""The results from the survey are consistent with those from previous studiesâ€?""; ""â€? and variance analysis shows that the impact on SMEs of the regulatory framework inside a country varied significantly in terms of policy areas and business size""; ""Figure 10. Perceived changes in compliance costs for each area of regulation""; ""2. Indirect costs""
""Indirect costs are important because they affect the ability of companies to innovate, operate efficiently, and adjust to changes over time""
 Businesses' Views on Red Tape provides the first opportunity to systematically compare data across 11 OECD countries. The data show how small and medium-sized enterprises perceive national administrative and regulatory costs. Regulations and government formalities, so-called ""red tape"", are important tools used by governments to carry out public policies in many policy areas, including safety, health, and environmental protection. However, if they are poorly designed or applied, inefficient, or outdated, they can impede innovation, entry, investment, and create unnecessary barriers to trade
Administrative procedure.
Bureaucracy.
Industrial laws and legislation.
Industrial management.
Bureaucracy
Industrial management
Industrial laws and legislation
Administrative procedure
Management
Business & Economics
Management Styles & Communication
Cutting Red Tape