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Legitimacy

Suddaby, Roy, Bitektine, Alex, Haack, Patrick·2017·Academy of Management Annals
DOI 10.5465/annals.2015.0101
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Legitimacy has emerged as a pivotal but often confusing construct in management research. The popularity of the concept and its widespread application to so many theoretical and empirical contexts has layered the construct of legitimacy with considerable surplus meaning. The object of this paper is to bring clarity and theoretical discipline to an important but misunderstood construct. We demonstrate through a description of the historical evolution of the construct that legitimacy has evolved in three distinct ways; from a focus on the property elements of legitimacy, to a focus on the process of legitimacy construction and finally to a focus on the cognitive practices by which legitimacy is negotiated.

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Authors
Suddaby, R., Bitektine, A., & Haack, P.
Venue
Academy of Management Annals
Publisher
Academy of Management
Published
2017-01
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
451-478
ISSN
  • 1941-6067 (ISSN-L)
  • 1941-6520
DOI
10.5465/annals.2015.0101
OpenAlex
W4240547422
Cited by
1,082
References
10
FWCI
98.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Suddaby, R., Bitektine, A., & Haack, P. (2017). Legitimacy. Academy of Management Annals. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2015.0101

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