TY - JOUR
T1 - A process model of internal and external legitimacy
AU - Drori, Israel
AU - Honig, Benson
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We report the results of a longitudinal case study depicting the relationship between internal and external legitimacy at Orion, an emergent creative professional firm. We address the following questions: How do different types of legitimacy emerge, and how do they interact to shape organizational evolution? Introducing a staged process model, we demonstrate that organizational legitimacy is a product of action, which is continually reproduced and reconstructed by members of an organization in concert with external legitimation activities. Internal and external legitimacy evolve through a process of emergence, validation, diffusion and consensus, sometimes recursively repeating the cycle when imbalances result in conflict and friction.
AB - We report the results of a longitudinal case study depicting the relationship between internal and external legitimacy at Orion, an emergent creative professional firm. We address the following questions: How do different types of legitimacy emerge, and how do they interact to shape organizational evolution? Introducing a staged process model, we demonstrate that organizational legitimacy is a product of action, which is continually reproduced and reconstructed by members of an organization in concert with external legitimation activities. Internal and external legitimacy evolve through a process of emergence, validation, diffusion and consensus, sometimes recursively repeating the cycle when imbalances result in conflict and friction.
KW - institutional work
KW - internal and external legitimacy
KW - organizational legitimation
KW - process model
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U2 - 10.1177/0170840612467153
DO - 10.1177/0170840612467153
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875044409
SN - 0170-8406
VL - 34
SP - 345
EP - 376
JO - Organization Studies
JF - Organization Studies
IS - 3
ER -