The Legal Trichotomy: Biotech Company Perspectives on Institutional Elements Constraining Research Activities
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Filippa Corneliussen
Summary
How does the law influence organisational behaviour? Following the Neo Institutionalist concept of institutional isomorphism, I view law as a broad cultural framework that not only influences organisations through regulative processes, but also through cognitive and normative mechanisms. Organisations adopt certain structures and practices because the sociolegal environment constructs those structures and practices as proper, responsible, legitimate and natural. I draw on the experiences of biotech start-up founders, managers and scientists in Scotland and Norway to investigate the institutional elements constraining their research activities. I find that these biotech companies operate within a legal trichotomy of coercive, mimetic and normative influences.
© 2001 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Inhalt. Janrgang 7 (2001)
- Inhalt
- Forum
- The Regulation of Biotechnology – Editorial Remarks
- Culture in the Risk Society
- The Legal Regulation of the Environment and New Technologies - In View of Changing Relations between Law, Politics and Science
- Overcoming the Organisational Deficit in Research on Regulation
- The Legal Trichotomy: Biotech Company Perspectives on Institutional Elements Constraining Research Activities
- Scientific Misconduct as Organisational Deviance
- Abhandlung
- Die Unvollkommenheit des Rechts
- Diskussion
- Die Sektion Rechtssoziologie ist kein Max-Planck-Institut!
- Die Aufgabe(n) der Rechtssoziologie
- Rezensionen
- Ankündigungen
- Autorinnen und Autoren des Heftes
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Inhalt. Janrgang 7 (2001)
- Inhalt
- Forum
- The Regulation of Biotechnology – Editorial Remarks
- Culture in the Risk Society
- The Legal Regulation of the Environment and New Technologies - In View of Changing Relations between Law, Politics and Science
- Overcoming the Organisational Deficit in Research on Regulation
- The Legal Trichotomy: Biotech Company Perspectives on Institutional Elements Constraining Research Activities
- Scientific Misconduct as Organisational Deviance
- Abhandlung
- Die Unvollkommenheit des Rechts
- Diskussion
- Die Sektion Rechtssoziologie ist kein Max-Planck-Institut!
- Die Aufgabe(n) der Rechtssoziologie
- Rezensionen
- Ankündigungen
- Autorinnen und Autoren des Heftes
