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...

From the sociolinguistic perspective, conspiracy theories (CT), which convey heterodox forms of knowledge that diverge from accepted narratives, are worth examining since their discourses abound in persuasive language. Still, discourse CTs is under-researched (Demata/Zorzi/ Zottola 2022). The present empirical, discourse-analytical case study seeks to address this lacuna by exploring discursive...

Abstract This article introduces a new dataset on how international organizations (IOs) justify their authority. For long time, IOs were believed to derive legitimacy from member-state consent and technocratic problem-solving capacities. Over recent decades, the growing politicization of IOs, political polarization within Western democracies, power shifts in system have spurred IOs’ efforts rig...

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ABSTRACT Organizational hybridity refers to the combination of multiple institutional logics and identities that, within an organizational setting, do not conventionally complement one another. In such conditions, organizations must develop strategies combine sustain their hybrid forms. Success, however, is inevitable. this article, we take a legitimacy-as-process perspective focus on failed Mi...

How does the European Central Bank (ECB) legitimise its decisions and monetary policy programmes in period from 2009 to 2021 terms of input, throughput output legitimacy? This article contains an answer this important question based on a content analysis speeches made by presidents ECB. Ideally, institution is founded independence therefore cannot maintain legitimacy through public influence. p...

In this study, the authors provide an assessment of the ecological theory of organizational form emergence and focus on the positive density effect associated with legitimation. The argument comes in two steps. First, organizational ecology seeks to understand cross-population similarities in search of general patterns in form emergence processes. Using summative meta-analysis, the authors show...