In this article I discuss output legitimacy as a category of normative analysis of international organizations (IOs). I … first take issue with the widespread view that output legitimacy is just a synonym for organizational effectiveness or … efficiency, and unrelated to democracy. Against this view, I argue that output legitimacy has an important democratic dimension …

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 …

possibility of, and impediments to, reconciling these multiple rationales (“orders of worth”) and thus gain legitimacy through a … compromise. This sheds light on the understanding of integrated reporting as such, as well as shows how legitimacy struggles are … scholars to look closer at the dynamics of legitimacy and at the possible mechanisms to attain legitimacy in fragmented and …