Dr Gary Lynch-Wood is a Visiting Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He research interests are regulation and the challenges of designing effective programmes of regulation. His main focus has been on the regulatory strategies for fostering greater levels of corporate social and environmental responsibility, but he has also examined governance and regulatory structures in relation to the provision of health and welfare as well as into the provision of higher education . He has published widely on subject of regulation in leading journals (e.g., Journal of Law and Society, Journal of Environmental Law, Journal of Business Ethics, Environmental Politics, Regulation & Governance). His recent book, The Structure of Regulation, provides a general theory for understanding why regulation succeeds and fails, and it has been described by leading scholars as “A fine new contribution” and as taking “a substantial step forward”.

Selected Publications

• Williamson, D. and Lynch-Wood, G. ‘Structural Limits and Structural Opportunities for Shareholder Regulation’.: 2023. In  Onyeka, O., N. Franklin and contributions from G Lynch-Wood, Corporate Social Responsibility Across the Globe (Cambridge University Press)
• Huang, I., D. Williamson., G. Lynch-Wood., V. Raimo.,C. Rayner., L. Addington, and E. West.: 2022. ‘Governance of Agents in the Recruitment of International Students: A Typology of Contractual Management Approaches in Higher Education’ 47(6) Studies in Higher Education 1150–1170.
• Williamson, D. and G. Lynch-Wood.: 2021. The Structure of Regulation: Explaining Why Regulation Succeeds and Fails (Elgar Studies in Law and Regulation, Elgar Publications Ltd).
• Horton, D. and G. Lynch-Wood.: 2020. ‘Technocracy, the Market and the Governance of England’s National Health Service’ 14(2) Regulation & Governance 295-315.
• Lynch-Wood, G. and D. Williamson.: 2019. ‘Board effectiveness and regulation: Explaining the deficit’. In Ngwu, F., Osuji, O., Ogbechie, C. and Williamson, D. Enhancing Board Effectiveness: Institutional, Regulatory and Functional Perspectives for Developing and Emerging Markets  (Routledge. New York).
• Williamson, D. and G. Lynch-Wood.: 2019. ‘Codes for boards of directors: A law and morality and organisational differences perspective’ In Ngwu, F., Osuji, O., Ogbechie, C. and Williamson, D. Enhancing Board Effectiveness: Institutional, Regulatory and Functional Perspectives for Developing and Emerging Markets (Routledge. New York).
• Horton, D. and G. Lynch-Wood.: 2018, ‘Rhetoric and Reality: User Engagement and Health Care Reform in England’ 26(1) Medical Law Review 27-50.
• Pearson, J. and G. Lynch-Wood.: 2017, ‘Concern and counter-concern: the challenge of fragmented fears for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing’ 4(5) The Extractive Industries and Society: An International Journal 672-680.
• Williamson, D. and G. Lynch-Wood.: 2017, ‘The Global Compact and the governance of situated firms’. In Gudić, M., Flynn P and T. Tan. Eds. The Global Compact (Greenleaf Publishing) 156-166.
• Lynch-Wood, G., D. Williamson and D. Horton.: 2017, ‘Perspectives on civil regulation, firms, and the environment.’ In Asquer, A., F. Becchis and D. Russilillo. Eds. The Political Economy of Local Regulation: Theoretical Frameworks and International Case Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, London) 127-146.
• Lynch-Wood, G. and D. Williamson.: 2015, ‘Unexplored aspects of a social licence for SMEs’ 15(5) Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society 1-14.
• Lynch-Wood, G.: 2014, ‘Poverty, human rights, and responsibilities’. In Gudić M, C. Parkes and A. Rosenbloom. Eds. Socially Responsible Organizations and the Challenge of Poverty (Greenleaf Publishing: Sheffield) 56-65.
• Lynch-Wood, G. and D. Williamson.: 2014, ‘Civil Regulation, the environment, and the compliance orientations of SMEs’ 125(3) Journal of Business Ethics 467-480.  
• Lynch-Wood, G. and D. Williamson.: 2014, ‘Understanding SME responses to environmental regulation’ 57(8) Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 1220-1239.
• Williamson, D. and G. Lynch-Wood.: 2012, ‘Ecological modernisation and the regulation of firms’ 21(6) Environmental Politics 941-959.
• Lynch-Wood, G. and D. Williamson.: 2011, ‘Receptivity in environmental regulation – why differences matter’ 23(3) Journal of Environmental Law 383-413. (ARTICLE).
• Lynch-Wood, G. and D. Williamson.: 2010, ‘Organisational strategies and regulatory capacities’. In Smith, G., H. Quirk and T. Seddon. Eds. Regulation and Criminal Justice: Developing a New Framework for Research and Policy Development (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) 134-161. (CHAPTER).