Treviño, Linda Klebe; Nieuwenboer, Niki A. den; … - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 123 (2014) 2, pp. 186-205
were hired to help their organizations respond to external legitimacy challenges, ECOs face major legitimacy challenges … inside their organizations. Facilitating conditions may reduce these challenges and help ECOs reach internal legitimacy. But …, we also found that ECOs engage in what we term legitimacy work that relies on a number of tactics to help them gain …