The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act bestowed upon the Securities and Exchange Commission the right to pursue an enforcement action against any person either in federal court or through an administrative proceeding. Since 2012, the SEC has chosen to pursue an unprecedented percentage of its enforcement actions administratively, and it has prevailed in those administrati...

From a Systemic Semiotic perspective, instances of organisational communication (texts) and their general patterns (text types or genres) are treated as distinct from workplace action and their general patterns (action types). Administrative and Manufacturing systems demonstrate how genres and action types are discursively organised into workpractices. Different kinds of action can be identifie...