This research provides insight into perceptions regarding electronic journals: a technological innovation in academia. Acceptance of electronic journals among business school faculty has two hurdles to overcome: technological and, more challenging, garnering legitimacy within the academic community. A survey targeted at business school faculty in the United States was conducted investigating fa...

This paper reports an explorative analysis on the development of legitimacy across 20 European democracies. I contend that processes representing democratic performance are conducive to changes in legitimacy. A conceptual and empirical discussion is presented to establish this relationship. Democratic performance appears to change due to less trust in parties as representatives and variations i...

Bicameralism remains a common legislative arrangement, providing a classic potential check on political executives. But this potential is not always realised, leading scholars to ask which factors contribute to bicameralism that is ‘strong’. One well-established analysis is that of Arend Lijphart, in his account of majoritarian and consensus democracies. This bases bicameral strength on two dim...

Various versions of legitimacy theory predict that a duty and obligation to obey legitimate authorities generally trumps people’s personal moral and religious values. However, most research has assumed rather than measured the degree to which people have a moral or religious stake in the situations studied. This study tested compliance with and reactions to legitimate authorities in the context...

This research is the result of a study shift in culture and political practices Indonesia from moral legitimacy to capital legitimacy. based on concept culture, theory, practice meaning, views several observers. The results changes Indonesia. embodiment related actors who what called homo homini lupus which justified. behavioral only measured material terms this not line with Pancasila Democrat...

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This paper examines how global interdependencies and the consolidation of a human rights discourse are transforming national sovereignty. Social researchers frequently address the supremacy of state sovereignty and the absoluteness of human rights as mutually exclusive categories. However, rather than presupposing that a universal rights discourse is necessarily leading to the demise of soverei...

To market new products and services successfully, innovative ventures not only require good ideas but also organizational legitimacy. Legitimacy or ‘social acceptance’ from stakeholders allows entrepreneurs in the mobilizing of resources and necessary supportive contacts to grow their venture. Developing legitimacy is a particularly complex process for private ventures operating in markets of s...

AIM This qualitative study explored the professional and practice-based factors affecting the role legitimacy and adequacy of practice nurses in managing obese patients. BACKGROUND There are strong clinical, financial and practical reasons for tackling obesity in UK general practice. Although practice nurses may seem to be in an ideal position to manage obesity, there remain questions about t...