determining the legitimacy of institutions in modern societies. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 …

This article examines actors’ views on legitimacy in governance networks in four Nordic countries. The analysis is … continuum, in which the connection between legitimacy and representative democracy is strongest in Denmark and weakest in …

governance. The changing distribution of risks poses a threat to the legitimacy of business firms that normally derive their … legitimacy from operating in compliance with the legal rules of democratic nation states. However, during the process of …, business firms have to address the various legitimacy challenges of their operations directly and cannot rely upon the …

Businesses increasingly assume political roles, despite issues of legitimacy. The presented two case studies illustrate …

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is one of the ways through which companies gain legitimacy. However, CSR actions … behavior. Legitimacy of CSR actions is indeed influenced by the actions of the company but also is rooted in the basic cultural … values of a society and in the ideologies of evaluators. This study examines the legitimacy of CSR actions of publicly traded …

for being too commercial. It is thus time to question its legitimacy, and this article aims to contribute to this debate …

serve the needs of all citizens. A theoretical model for explaining the formation of legitimacy in a certain political … measured the legitimacy of the forest policy, the acceptance of laws, the justice of the procedures, the fairness of power … relations, the acceptance of forestry operations and the competence in forest policy issues. Overall legitimacy was evaluated …

In this paper we assess how perceptions of park legitimacy influence individual willingness to self-restrict their … to assess the impact of legitimacy perceptions: With framing we introduced the game as a protected area natural resource … individual legitimacy perceptions. From the perspective of ecosystem service payments our results indicate that perceptions of …