A Process Model of Internal and External Legitimacy

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 345-376

  Drori, Israel ^a   Honig, Benson ^b  

^a College of Management ^*  (Israel)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

institutional work; internal and external legitimacy; organizational legitimation; process model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875044409     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612467153     Document Type: Article

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