Beginning from the argument that the sociology of educational knowledge remains a sociology without a theory of knowledge, this paper illustrates the signiŽcance of the structuring of knowledge for the development of intellectual Želds through a study of cultural studies in British higher education. The paper presents a means of bridging the divide between analyses of ‘relations to’ and ‘relati...

In this paper, we explore strategies that institutional entrepreneurs use to legitimate entreprise social media in a context where ESM interest vary across and within organisational units. Using an in-depth case study of a financial firm we contribute to IS-legitimation research in several ways. First, we outline an institutional logics template that future IS-legitimation research can use to c...

political legitimacy(legitimation - legitimization) is an important phenomenon and fact. therefore questions about؛ resources، origin، authority، basis، standards of political legitimacy are basic and permanent questions. good question is half of answer. therefore there are important questions about political legitimacy in all societies in the world wide(worldly/globality) and along the history...

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 ...