Organizational legitimacy and MNEs
Journal
Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management
Type
book section
Date Issued
2024-02-29
Author(s)
Abstract
Achieving and maintaining, or even more so, lacking or losing, legitimacy is very consequential for organizations. This explains the great scholarly interest in this area. Yet, organizational legitimacy is a broad construct that is somewhat difficult to define and even more challenging to operationalize and empirically measure. Despite notable research efforts, there continues to be some ambiguity and many unanswered questions around organizational legitimacy that need to be addressed to advance theory and provide guidance to practicing managers. In this entry, we present our understanding of the state of knowledge and suggest future research possibilities around this construct. In particular, we focus on the level of the organization, specifically the multinational enterprise (MNE), and take an institutional theory perspective.
Keywords
Legitimacy
Social embeddedness
Institutional theory perspective
Three-pillar framework
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Start page
327
End page
331
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