legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end, we design a laboratory experiment in which we exogenously manipulate the … organizational structure in a way that leaves the incentives of all individuals unaffected, but changes the perceived legitimacy of … incentive effects and that the observed changes are significantly associated with changes in perceived legitimacy. …

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

various notions. These components are the triadic relationship between power, legitimacy, and the reference to public …

corporation. In this paper, we explore how corporations respond to complex stakeholder environments and we analyze the legitimacy … prerequisites for managing legitimacy and how they are changing over time. We draw on the literature on institutional theory and … longitudinal study show that managing corporate legitimacy is a dynamic concept and corporations learn over time to adequately …

The article links leadership and legitimacy in globalizing business. It forwards a framework for analyzing how actors … in organizations may build and maintain organizational legitimacy through different strategies. The discussion connects … around organizational legitimacy. The presented framework highlights three generic strategies and the corresponding processes …