This article introduces the concept of indirect speech and shows what it can contribute to understanding "legitimacy … talk" regarding international institutions. Indirect speech occurs when one kind of illocutionary act is used to … pass the salt?"). Transporting concepts from pragmatics and sociolinguistics, this article argues that legitimacy talk …

(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious … (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …

a strong effect on CSR expansion when the legitimacy of CSR is low. However, when the practice has achieved substantial …