Organizational legitimacy and organizational reputation have similar antecedents, social construction processes, and consequences. Nonetheless, an improved understanding of relationships between legitimacy and reputation requires that differences between the two be specified and clarified. Our...

I welcome the opportunity to provide some reflections on Michael Yaziji's paper, "Toward a Theory of Social Risk: Antecedents of Normative Delegitimation." The process of reflection allows me to review some ideas that have been fermenting in my head related to the concepts of legitimacy,...

We integrate theory and findings from the strategic groups and reputation literatures to examine the consequences of cognitive strategic group membership and positioning within strategic groups on the media reputations of firms. We extend past discussions of media reputation to examine...

The purpose of this article is to examine stakeholder identification and prioritization by managers using the power, legitimacy, and urgency framework of Mitchell et al. (Academy of Management Review 22, 853-886; 1997). We use a multi-method, comparative case study of two large-scale sporting event...

We examine organizational ingenuity within the paradox of embedded agency where organizational stakeholders are constrained in their behaviors by institutions, yet also influence and change these institutions. In this study organizational ingenuity represents the agency component and...

Legitimacy is a fundamental concept of organizational institutionalism. It influences how organizations behave and has been shown to affect their performance and survival (Pollock & Rindova, 2003; Singh, Tucker, & House, 1986). As developed in organizational institutionalism the term has spread...

Corporate reputation is becoming more important to managers and scholars around the world. However, little is known about how much or why reputation differs across countries. We use institutional theory to fill this gap. We focus on institutional development, reflecting the expansion of formal...

The basis of this teaching is a small nursery and landscape business in northern United States. The case describes how the company attempted to implement a decentralization and employee empowerment program to move relevant decision-making closer to the work site. It illustrates shifting from a...

This paper addresses the performance consequences of firm-level strategic similarity. Past research observed that firms face pressures to be different and to be the same. By differentiating, firms reduce competition. By conforming, firms demonstrate their legitimacy. Both reduced competition and...

A company often must manage its reputation with multiple stakeholders in different ways. This paper develops an interdisciplinary model for reputation management based on a historical case study of Wal-Mart. The model draws on impression management, stakeholder and game theories. We find...