%0 Journal Article %T The Legal Environments of Organizations %A Lauren B. Edelman %A Mark C. Suchman %J - %D 1997 %R 10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.479 %X Sociology has recently witnessed a rapprochement between research on organizations and research on law. This essay reviews a number of central developments and tendencies in this emerging literatur.. %U https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.479