government size and GDP growth. The empirical contribution is to provide evidence through a long time-series analysis of the …

Swedish firm. Applying institutional theory and the concept of legitimacy, we try to shed new light on the firm process of … the effect of these actions on the development and legitimacy for the radical idea. We find that when an idea lack top …

legitimacy. Lastly, some suggestions are offered to address the discrepancies between these writing norms and more recent …

education is confronted with an additional challenge: building political legitimacy. We analyze the "extreme case" study of … education landscape. This is the first article dealing with the topic of legitimacy acquisition processes, with the aim of …

The objective of this paper is to analyse the sources of legitimacy of the producing organizations of accounting … standards. Firstly, we examine the need for harmonisation of accounting standards in particular to maintain the confidence of … legitimacy and analyses the legitimacy of the International Standard Accounting Board (IASB). …

build legitimacy by shaping identity with university academics and management. In undertaking this research we draw on 63 … complement and reinforce preliminary legitimacy claims made through conformance and manipulation. We discuss the potential …

organizational legitimacy perspective. We argue that corporations use Internet environmental disclosure to project a more socially …

legitimacy in an environment characterized by global insecurity of the energy industry, instability of the political regime in … therefore to see how the changing environment and the need for legitimacy are affecting the financial communication of the …

In this paper, a model of political consensus is introduced. Parties try to reach consensus in forming a government. A … government is defined as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy …. Parties may be advised to adjust their preferences, i.e., to change their evaluation concerning some government(s) or/and the …