political legitimacy is one of the basic and major concepts of political science especially      political thought. different views of the meaning and the concept of political legitimacy go back to the roots of political legitimacy. in this article by using a comparative style, the author will attempt to      compare the concept of political legitimacy in imam khomeini and jurgen habermas'...

This study is positioned at the intersection of legitimation and international entrepreneurship theories. It is a longitudinal ethnographic case study that explores the process of emergence of an international new software venture from an emerging economy and the effect this venture has on the process of industry creation in that economy. Data were collected over a two year period, 2010-2011, v...

Received: 14 May 2009 Revised: 18 January 2010 2nd Revision: 28 February 2011 3rd Revision: 19 May 2011 Accepted: 20 May 2011 Abstract This research examines the legitimation process that was undertaken to gain stakeholder support for the development of a smartcard system for student services at a local university in China. We employed a theoretical framework consisting of Suchman’s typology of...

We investigate the importance of legitimation-seeking in IS development by describing two related projects in the Central Hospital, Bangkok. In the second project, begun immediately after the first, there were major improvements in legitimation-seeking activities and the implemented IS was a success, providing strong evidence that stakeholders perceived a direct link between legitimation failur...

Introducing new Information Systems (IS) to organizations often brings changes to the status quo and IS managers need to gain acceptance and support from stakeholders. Legitimation is an abstraction of formal and informal approval of stakeholders toward organizational activities. Our research motivation is to demonstrate that a process-based understanding of legitimation-seeking activities is i...

Social and organizational issues are important in developing successful information systems in organizations. In the past, several approaches have been used to investigate these issues, but more recently an emerging and promising approach is to use Structuration Theory (ST). ST is acknowledged as a powerful approach but needs careful operationalization; consequently, the empirical application o...

This research throws light on to the role of social issues in developing a successful information system. In a case study of a community health organization, we describe how IT management carried out an integrated set of actions over a two-year period to obtain legitimation for an Intranet system from its eventual stakeholders. We suggest that, in general, a failure to obtain such legitimation ...

There is limited theoretical understanding and empirical evidence for how international new ventures legitimate. Drawing from legitimation theory, this study fills in this gap by exploring how international new ventures legitimate and strive for survival in the face of critical events during the process of their emergence. It is a longitudinal, multiple-case study research that employs critical...

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 Political legitimacy is one of the basic and major concepts of political science especially      political thought. Different views of the meaning and the concept of political legitimacy go back to the roots of political legitimacy. In this article by using a comparative style, the author will attempt to      compare the concept of political legitimacy in Imam Khomeini and Jurgen Habermas's th...