a strong effect on CSR expansion when the legitimacy of CSR is low. However, when the practice has achieved substantial …

organizational legitimacy. Results show that isomorphism in the strategies of commercial banks is related to legitimacy conferred by …This study tests a central proposition of institutional theory, that organizational isomorphism increases …

dynamics based on the notions of justice, social and procedural legitimacy and fairness. In particular, we put forward a … which conditions they are likely to cooperate, when instability emerges and when demand for institutional change builds up …

This article introduces the concept of indirect speech and shows what it can contribute to understanding "legitimacy … pass the salt?"). Transporting concepts from pragmatics and sociolinguistics, this article argues that legitimacy talk … generalized legitimacy claims. Understanding this double role of legitimacy talk sheds light on otherwise puzzling empirical …

(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious …, they miss the role of cultural values in either supporting the persistence of or inducing change in the economic and … model to shed light on political decentralization and technological change in the two regions. …