Abstract:

This thesis is devoted to the study of innovations that are ambiguous to existing regulatory frameworks. The problem is how these ambiguous innovations achieve regulatory acceptance. I start by proposing an analogy between a social movement and the process of achieving regulatory acceptance for innovations. It enables me to introduce social movement theories to systematically explain the variation of regulatory outcomes of an innovation. I then turn to the discursive side of this problem, ...

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