Under the plurality voting rule we often see that a party forms the government by winning majority of the seats, without winning majority of the votes. In some situations a smaller party with lower vote share may win more seats than a party with larger vote share. A more problematic case is when...

International entrepreneurs evolve in formal and informal institutional context which contribute to form social representations of their firms. Conformance to these shared representations is the building block of legitimacy. Our study aims to explore the specificities of international...

Legitimacy is pivotal in nonprofit organizations’ success. The trend that nonprofit organizations are hybridized increasingly with business-like practices and social nonprofit missions raises a debate on whether and how people grant business-like practices legitimacy. This study addressed...

This paper identifies the essential differences between public and private adjudication and their implications for legitimacy of dispute resolution institutions, the rule of law and facilitation of private ordering. Public adjudication comes at a significant cost for the taxpayers but helps...