Beyond legitimacy: Legitimacy types and organizational success

Management Decision

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1954-1969

  Díez Martín, Francisco ^a   Prado Roman, Camilo ^a   Blanco González, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Institutional theory; Legitimacy; Measuring legitimacy; Mutual guarantee societies; Organizational success

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886078067     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MD-08-2012-0561     Document Type: Article

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