Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
Item
- Title
- Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
- Abstract/Description
- This article synthesizes the large but diverse literature on organizational legitimacy, highlighting similarities and disparities among the leading strategic and institutional approaches. The analysis identifies three primary forms of legitimacy: pragmatic, based on audience self-interest; moral, based on normative approval: and cognitive, based on comprehensibility and taken-for-grantedness. The article then examines strategies for gaining, maintaining, and repairing legitimacy of each type, suggesting both the promises and the pitfalls of such instrumental manipulations.
- Author/creator
- Suchman, Mark C.
- Date
- In publication
- Academy of Management Review
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 571-610
- Resource type
- en Background/Context
- Medium
- en Print
- Background/context type
- en Conceptual
- Open access/free-text available
- en Yes
- Peer reviewed
- en Yes
- ISSN
- 0363-7425
- URL
- Official Publisher's Webpage (Academy of Management)
- Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
- Citation
- Suchman, M. C. (1995). Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches. Academy of Management Review, 20(3), 571–610. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1995.9508080331
- Abbreviation
- AMR
- Item sets
- Handbook Chapter 14 Citations
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