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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Managing legitimacy in complex and heterogeneous environments: sustainable development in a globalized world |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | UZH Business Working Paper Series |
| Number | 306 |
| ISSN | 2296-0422 |
| Number of Pages | 50 |
| Date | 2012 |
| Abstract Text | The sustainability problems of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services increasingly challenges the legitimacy of corporations. Corporate legitimacy, however, is vital to the survival of corporations in competitive environments. The literature distinguishes three strategies that corporations commonly employ to address legitimacy problems: adapt to external expectations, try to manipulate the perception of their stakeholders or engage in a discourse with those who question their legitimacy. This paper develops a theoretical framework for the application of different legitimacy strategies and suggests that corporations facing sustainability problems have to be able to activate all three legitimacy strategies, despite their inherent incompatibilities. |
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| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:8056 |
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