Legitimacy has emerged as a pivotal but often confusing construct in management theory.
Defined as a “generalized perception or assumption that the actions of an entity are …

Firms often need to acquire external financial resources to maintain and develop their
business. To attract these resources, firms employ various substantive and rhetorical …

The emergence of “moral leadership,” discussed here as a situation wherein individuals
take a moral stance on an issue, convince others to do the same, and together spur change …

Managers who oversee cybersecurity policies commonly rely on managerial
encouragement (eg, rewards) and employee characteristics (eg, attitude) to drive compliant …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most relevant technologies of our time. During the last
decade, AI has made major technological breakthroughs most recently in the space of …

To fully understand legitimacy as a complex construct, it is necessary to capture both
collective perceptions and individual judgments. Much of the empirical research on …

Purpose This paper aims to propose and assess a framework to analyse the
institutionalization of Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) through a framing analysis. Design/methodology …

Many influential theories of organization rest on an analogical foundation: we think of the
organization as if it were a governance structure, a nexus of contracts, a social network, or …

Drawing on institutional theory and discursive psychology, this article elucidates how actors
use emotion discourse to undermine the legitimacy of consumer practices. Based on an …

To explain the legitimation of inequality among the members of a social system, we blend
system justification theory and the theory of social judgment. We identify adaptation and …