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The Legal Trichotomy: Biotech Company Perspectives on Institutional Elements Constraining Research Activities

  • Filippa Corneliussen
Published/Copyright: May 14, 2016
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Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie
From the journal Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie Volume 22 Issue 2

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.

Keywords: Legal environments; organisational behaviour; biotechnology regulations
Online erschienen: 2016-5-14
Erschienen im Druck: 2001-11-1

© 2001 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Inhalt. Janrgang 7 (2001)
  2. Inhalt
  3. Forum
  4. The Regulation of Biotechnology – Editorial Remarks
  5. Culture in the Risk Society
  6. The Legal Regulation of the Environment and New Technologies - In View of Changing Relations between Law, Politics and Science
  7. Overcoming the Organisational Deficit in Research on Regulation
  8. The Legal Trichotomy: Biotech Company Perspectives on Institutional Elements Constraining Research Activities
  9. Scientific Misconduct as Organisational Deviance
  10. Abhandlung
  11. Die Unvollkommenheit des Rechts
  12. Diskussion
  13. Die Sektion Rechtssoziologie ist kein Max-Planck-Institut!
  14. Die Aufgabe(n) der Rechtssoziologie
  15. Rezensionen
  16. Ankündigungen
  17. Autorinnen und Autoren des Heftes
https://doi.org/10.1515/zfrs-2001-0207
Keywords for this article
Legal environments; organisational behaviour; biotechnology regulations

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Inhalt. Janrgang 7 (2001)
  2. Inhalt
  3. Forum
  4. The Regulation of Biotechnology – Editorial Remarks
  5. Culture in the Risk Society
  6. The Legal Regulation of the Environment and New Technologies - In View of Changing Relations between Law, Politics and Science
  7. Overcoming the Organisational Deficit in Research on Regulation
  8. The Legal Trichotomy: Biotech Company Perspectives on Institutional Elements Constraining Research Activities
  9. Scientific Misconduct as Organisational Deviance
  10. Abhandlung
  11. Die Unvollkommenheit des Rechts
  12. Diskussion
  13. Die Sektion Rechtssoziologie ist kein Max-Planck-Institut!
  14. Die Aufgabe(n) der Rechtssoziologie
  15. Rezensionen
  16. Ankündigungen
  17. Autorinnen und Autoren des Heftes
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