Asymmetric legitimacy perception across megaproject stakeholders: The case of the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link

With further emancipation of once subdued or marginalized stakeholders, a growing number megaprojects face increasingly significant social resistance. Asymmetries support for the projects emerge, rooted in different perceptions legitimacy across stakeholder groups. In this paper, we ask how these diverging develop stakeholders cross-border megaprojects. We conduct multi-site ethnography at one biggest contemporary transport world – Danish/German Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link. Tying together three streams literature new analytical approach, suggest dimensions project perception: trust, majority, and morality. doing so, provide integrative model perception illustrate dynamically interact. thus insights on is continuously renegotiated with implications future developments governance.