The issue of organizational legitimacy is increasingly gaining the attention of researchers and managers. While legitimacy can be described in a number of ways, defined by the harder social sciences it has usually been considered a static, one-dimensional characteristic. As a result, previous...

Scandals and normality are at opposite extremes in the continuum of social reproduction of the existing order. As normality has no clear definition, scandals benefit a huge amount from classifications, however, the dissatisfactions fail to provide an overall conceptual map. I develop a four-type...