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

and change, intra organizational institutionalization, institutional logics, and institutional work. In doing so, three … strategic management styles are distinguished: competitiveness based strategic management, legitimacy based strategic management … mainstream strategy research, offering additional variables and considerations to explain competitive advantage, the legitimacy …

organizational legitimacy. Results show that isomorphism in the strategies of commercial banks is related to legitimacy conferred by …This study tests a central proposition of institutional theory, that organizational isomorphism increases …