How do organizations respond to the loss of legitimacy in the context of disclosed corruption, and what drives the particular responses adopted? In this article, we study the organizational strategies of three multinational companies before, during, and after legitimacy loss due to disclosed...

Various actors have increasingly recognized the need to join forces in tackling “grand challenges” – that is, global societal and environmental problems. A core outcome envisioned by such joint efforts is responsible innovation. While the responsible innovation literature has long focused...

Surprisingly, organization and management literature has long tended to regard corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethics & compliance (or: anti-corruption) separately, although actors such as the United Nations typically regard anti-corruption as a part of CSR. As a result, CSR and...

Organizations have to manage their legitimacy by conforming with societal expectations. Existing research usually equates conformity with similarity across organizations, referred to as ‘alignment'. However, recent research suggests that, next to alignment, there is another form of conformity...