Legitimacy and Legitimacy Gap

Organizational legitimacy and legitimacy gap are terms that explain how organizations lose, meet, and regain societal approval to operate. Pioneering legitimacy scholars John Dowling and Jeffrey Pfeffer pointed out in 1975 that organizations must seek to establish congruence between social values, ...

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