and change, intra organizational institutionalization, institutional logics, and institutional work. In doing so, three … 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 …

organizational legitimacy. Results show that isomorphism in the strategies of commercial banks is related to legitimacy conferred by …This study tests a central proposition of institutional theory, that organizational isomorphism increases …

dynamics based on the notions of justice, social and procedural legitimacy and fairness. In particular, we put forward a … which conditions they are likely to cooperate, when instability emerges and when demand for institutional change builds up …