Organizational legitimacy

Dowling, J., & Pfeffer, J. (1975). Organizational legitimacy: Social values and organizational behavior. Pacific Sociological Review, 18(1), 122-136.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1975

Volume

18

Issue

1

Pages

122-136

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Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/1388226 not authoritativefound

Cited from

political_science

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Primes

• Legitimacy
  • This example transposes Dowling and Pfeffer's (1975) organizational-legitimacy framework into a regulatory-agency context.

    This sourceEarly formulation of organizational legitimacy as alignment between an organization's value system and the larger social system; foundational for regulatory-agency legitimacy analysis.

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