Law and Society by Steven Vago & Adie Nelson & Veronica Nelson & Steven E. Barkan

Author:Steven Vago & Adie Nelson & Veronica Nelson & Steven E. Barkan [Vago, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138215917
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

Disputes Between Organizations

Disputes between organizations cover a wide spectrum of participants and controversies (Axelrod, Vandeveer, and Downie, 2010). Examples of interorganizational conflict include disputes between a university and the community over such matters as zoning and land use; disputes between a corporation and the federal government concerning compliance with federal regulations, such as occupational safety, pollution, and human rights; or disputes between two corporations over such matters as copyright infringement or possible theft of business secrets. Social-policy disputes develop when the government pursues broad national objectives that may involve or impinge upon many interests and groups, such as equality and economic opportunity, environmental protection, income security, and public health and safety. In fact, large-scale social welfare programs have often generated complex public-policy disputes (Mink and Solinger, 2004). While social-policy disputes raise difficult political and value questions, regulatory disputes frequently involve difficult technical questions (Morriss, Yandle, and Dorchak, 2009). In both types of dispute, information about important variables is often incomplete or inaccurate, effects of alternative choices are hard to ascertain, and often there are no easy answers to cost–benefit questions or to questions of trade-offs among various interests. The various regulatory agencies discussed in Chapter 3 also process large numbers of routine disputes.

In many instances, the formal quasi-adjudicative procedures used by regulatory agencies are ill suited to resolving large and complex disputes. Delays in settling disputes are frequent, and the situation is further compounded by the fact that some agencies traditionally engaged in economic regulations are now being asked to consider environmental claims as well. The regulatory process, in a sense, encourages conflict, rather than acting to reconcile opposing interests.

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