combined structural perspective and agency perspective to discern the mechanisms by which the institutional change of any kind …

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 …

Following the basic paradigms of the organizational ecology approach, we propose three fields for further research that … cycles, it is important to analyze the influence of fundamental change in the governance structure of an organization on its … in order to better understand organizational life cycles. (3) Based on the strong effect legitimacy has on the survival …

economic literature believes that married women's entry into market work may have contributed to this by decreasing the gains … is the case. My findings indicate that the detrimental effect of married women's market work on marital stability has … indeed decreased substantially across cohorts, and such work may even be beneficial to marital stability among the recent …

This article considers changes in healthcare professional work afforded by technology. It uses the sociology of … professionals’ literature together with a theory of affordances to examine how and when technology allows change in healthcare … professional work. The study draws from research into the introduction of a national electronic patient record in an English …

legitimacy theory by which explanations for deviating can be understood as means of legitimizing the company’s actions. We … underlying logic and identify various legitimacy tactics. We discuss the consequences of these legitimacy tactics for code …

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 …