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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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This article focuses on the self-legitimation strategies of frontline prosecutors working in a Northeastern city United States (“Belton”). The research took place self-described “progressive” prosecutor's office midst legitimacy crisis that faced across country. Belton spoke about their role and practices face this through strategy differentiation from other criminal justice actors, aimed at es...

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...

The analysis using the new Regime Legitimation Expert Survey (RLES) demonstrates that non‐democratic rulers in post‐Soviet countries use specific combinations of legitimating claims to stay in power. Most notably, rulers claim to be the guardians of citizens’ socio‐ economic well‐being. Second, despite recurrent infringements on political and civil rights, they maintain that their power i...