Understanding the organizational regulation of societal risk through thecombination of new institutionalism and social regulation theory. Aproposal

Taskin, Laurent;Schiffino-Leclercq, Nathalie;Raone, Julien
(2011) EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) Subtheme 50 Organizing risk in the public sector — Location: Gothenburg (6.July.2011)

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This contribution is at the intersection of organizations studies, public administration and public policy analysis and proposes to combine New Institutionalism and Social Regulation Theory to understand organizational regulations of societal risk. While the former contributes to understand how the different levels of regulation articulate, the latter allows an in-depth and dynamic understanding of the organizational regulations at stake , at the level of the agency. In this context, organizational responses to societal risk can be seen as the result of social interactions or as the expression of a compromise between the actors involved in the formulation of the organizational response. The first section of this paper delineates the different concepts. Having discussed the notions of risk and regulation, it will point to the necessity to examine both external and internal dynamics for understanding organizational responses of public organizations handling societal risk. The second section will expose the main principles of New Institutionalism by illustrating its potential application in public sector research. The Social Regulation Theory will then be presented as a theoretical corpus likely to complement NI. A discussion of both theories will highlight the point of convergence and will lead to the design of a theoretical model set up around the notions of external and internal organizational regulations. This model will then be applied to the Belgian Food Safety Agency. A specific focus will be put on the role played by the Advisory Committee in the production of regulatory standards setting. Finally, the main theoretical and empirical observations made in this contribution will be put in perspective in the final discussion and its limitations will be emphasized.
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  • Louvain School of ManagementStrategy and Organisation
  • FUCaMSciences de gestion
  • FUCaMSciences Politiques, Sociales et de Communication
  • FUCaMSciences Politiques, Sociales et de Communication
  • FUCaMSciences Politiques, Sociales et de Communication

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Taskin, L., Schiffino-Leclercq, N., & Raone, J. (2011). Understanding the organizational regulation of societal risk through thecombination of new institutionalism and social regulation theory. Aproposal. EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) Subtheme 50 Organizing risk in the public sector, Gothenburg. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/250567