INTRODUCTION: LEGTIMACY PROCESSES IN ORGANIZATIONS

Abstract

Before addressing these three issues, I provide some background on the key theoretical approaches to legitimacy employed in this volume: two legitimacy theories in social psychology and institutional theory in organizational analysis. Virtually every contributor draws upon at least one of these theories; several authors draw upon two of these theories, offering a way to bridge them and/or apply them to a substantive concern.

Citation

Johnson, C. (2004), "INTRODUCTION: LEGTIMACY PROCESSES IN ORGANIZATIONS", Johnson, C. (Ed.) Legitimacy Processes in Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0733-558X(04)22010-9