In this paper, I present a positive theory of legitimation to explain why governments offer official statements after killing their own people and to ascertain whether the intuition behind Weberian legitimacy – that rule is most stable when subjects voluntarily comply – is accurate. Data for testing the theory is drawn from qualitative analysis of official responses to 156 cases of state violen...

This paper investigates how the marketing/entrepreneurship interface functions within the cultural sector. Specifically, the paper considers how cultural entrepreneurs in the music industry market not to customers, but to networks that control the resources necessary to support entrepreneurial ventures. Evidence is drawn from the qualitative research of a study on access to finance by owner-man...

Legitimation is an important aspect of e-government initiatives due to the complex and diverse issues related to policy and technology implementation which create huge demands for resources. Legitimation is one of the core concepts of Institutional theory. Though institutional theory is gaining importance in IS and e-government research, there are very few studies on the strategies and process ...

oVerView Research into body work based complementary and alternative therapies, such as osteopathy and chiropractic has highlighted barriers and benefits of professionalization for these professions. There has been no examination of the road massage therapy has taken towards legitimation and professionalization. This review article examines the drive by massage therapists for legitimation as he...

rganizing the interdependencies within and between communities is one of the ongoing challenges of mankind. Once organizations are formed, companies run their businesses, and a legal system is in place, there is an urgent need for procedures to perform legally binding transactions. This in turn brings up the need for unforgeable documents or tokens of legitimation. Traditional examples are lett...

Theoretical and practical aspects of strategies for achieving legitimacy in Information Systems projects are not a widely researched topic. Legitimation is particularly relevant for projects involving action research interventions though it is desirable also in those including observations. An overview of action research and of past work on legitimation strategies in Management and Information ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the association between several medical interview behaviors and patient satisfaction. METHODS The subjects were 158 new patients who visited an outpatient facility of a university hospital in Japan. All medical interviews were videotaped and reviewed by a trained rater using a medical interview rating scale (Takemura Medical Interview R...