Abstract Joel Ng, ‘ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture’, International Affairs 99: 3, May 2023, pp. 1003–1022, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad107

This study explores the process of legitimation of international new ventures from an emerging economy and the effect such ventures have on the process of creation and legitimation of a new industry in that economy. It is a longitudinal ethnographic case study. Following an inductive theory building approach, data were collected over an eleven year period via in-depth interviews, participant ob...

Abstract How do international organizations (IOs) claim legitimacy, and why they so in different ways? Confronted with contestation critique, IOs seek to enhance audiences' beliefs their legitimacy by justifying governance competence through public communication the change of institutions behaviour. This article serves as an introduction a special section on ‘Legitimizing organizations’. It the...

To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...

Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

How should one respond to racial oppression? Conventional prescriptions of mainstream social psychological science emphasize the idea of coping with oppression—whether via emotional management strategies that emphasize denial or disengagement; problem-focused strategies that emphasize compensation, self-efficacy, or skills training; or collective strategies that emphasize emotional support—in w...