Legitimacy

Christopher W.J. Steele

Chapter 2.15 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 162-165 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Like many terms drawn from ordinary language, the concept of legitimacy cuts across literatures and takes diverse forms. The concept has been particularly extensively developed within institutionalism, where legitimacy has long played a central theoretical role. In this entry, I focus on elaborating this conceptualization and highlighting three distinct ways it connects to strategy-as-practice. Opportunities abound to delve further into the intersection of legitimacy and strategy-as-practice in future theory and research.

Keywords: Legitimacy; Institutionalism; Isomorphism; Decoupling; Embedded agency; Evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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