strategic management styles are distinguished: competitiveness based strategic management, legitimacy based strategic management … mainstream strategy research, offering additional variables and considerations to explain competitive advantage, the legitimacy …'s viability that emphasizes legitimacy over competitive advantage. The performativity based style is an even more radical …

(environmental patents and pollution prevention practices) on environmental legitimacy. We show that 1) symbolic actions have a … weaker positive effect on legitimacy than substantive actions; 2) that the impact of symbolic actions is greater when they …