Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches

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: 1995
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
DOI: 10.5465/amr.1995.9508080331
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

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