Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 10/24/18


We applied institutional theory to examine the effect of differences in institutional pressures on strategic decisions of …. Greenpeace, in its fight to stop the use of genetically-modified organisms. The formal institutional environment was in transition in [Europe] during the late 1990s to the mid-2000s, while it was stable in the US. Regulation in the US is based on scientific rationality principles, limiting the scope of risk assessment and requiring the participants to possess scientific expertise of GM products.

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