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Respon Legalized Compliance Report

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Professional experts within organizations adapt and respond to laws by taking into consideration the organization’s available resources to determine the level of compliance. Vague and ambiguous laws coupled with fragmented enforcement force experts within organizations to produce an organizational policy in response. Dobbin and Sutton describe how professional experts including accountants, tax lawyers, and employment managers saw the possibility for human resource departments to “ensure legal compliance, exaggerating the risk of litigation to win organizational resources” (445). Professional experts saw an economic incentive to create policies in response to laws and created more departments and hired more personnel to determine compliance measures. Due to the incredible ambiguity of laws, “organizations created new offices not because the law dictated that they do so but because the law did not tell them what to do” (Dobbin and Sutton 470). In universities, law experts “knew the law well” and took shortcuts in compliance measures while maintaining organizational interests (Gould 166). Policy making within organizations becomes a top-down operation with professional experts acting in their best interest when deciding how to …show more content…

Internal policy professionals engaged in debates on legal regulations and “filled professional publications,” spreading reform (Epp 2009, 21). Through professional networks, academic and legal actors within various organizations wrote on the fear of liability and urged others to “carry out deep institutional reforms” (Epp 2009, 23). Professional networks of policy experts generated new norms that disseminated within the organizational world. In coordination with activists using law, professional managers produced a system of legalized accountability that influenced organizational responses to

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