Although legitimacy theory provides strong arguments that environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure and … the same time suffering from uncertainty in firm legitimacy, culminating in amplified financial risks for both issuers and …

perceptions of legitimacy as well as diversity identity. Adequate, inadequate, and optimal management of diversity identity have … differential effects on legitimacy and diversity identity. We contribute to the literature by a) unbundling initial and later firm …

legitimacy problems. The authors consider various strategies used to seek organizational legitimacy in the U.K. casino gambling … supercasino. They suggest four generic strategies for seeking organizational legitimacy in this highly complex context: construing … bidimensional model of generic legitimacy-seeking strategies contribute to limited literature on organizational legitimacy in …

aspects” in particular can endanger corporate legitimacy if perceived by the stakeholders as not being in line with societal … substantial management of legitimacy. We show that symbolic legitimation strategies aiming at modifying the perception of …

responsibility of becoming more polyphonic and sketch the contours of “communicative legitimacy.” Finally, we present this special …

to yield a meta-attitude representing the legitimacy of sustainability. Our model distinguishes among three types of …