Samuel Huntington (1968) pointed out that modernity brought stability while modernization brought instability. Nowadays, China accelerates its process of modernization, which brought a series of problems in politics, economy as well as culture. Chinese tradition is suffering from the impact of...

Based on the argument of legitimacy theory, there are allegations that companies use disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in order to maintain the image in the public eye. This study aims to examine the effect of CSR disclosure on tax aggressiveness. The hypothesis proposed is...

Adjudication of constitutional socio-economic rights by the courts is often regarded as judicial usurpation of the governance space and therefore levelled with the charge of democratic illegitimacy. However, the charge of judicial usurpation in relation to constitutional socio-economic rights...

Sovereign wealth funds are designed to solve crucial domestic policy problems. Poorly managed SWFs and SWFs that are managed as tools of economic nationalism or mercantilism will present problems for both the sponsor country and for host countries that receive SWF investment. This article...

U.S. assertion of political power in the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s appointment process reminds us of the tenuous balance that exists between state power, adjudication and legitimacy in WTO dispute settlement. Even more fundamentally, it prompts questions about whether reformation of...

This paper will analyze President Trump's use of the NEA and one of its accompanying statutes, the Military Construction Codification Act, to secure funding to build a border wall. More broadly, this paper aims to trace the complexities within the broader system of the NEA and its associated...

Organizations have to manage their legitimacy by conforming with societal expectations. Existing research usually equates conformity with similarity across organizations, referred to as ‘alignment'. However, recent research suggests that, next to alignment, there is another form of conformity...

We explore the dark side of legitimacy, i.e., situations when legitimacy is largely taken-for-granted while negative consequences for society are not revealed. We build on a case study of anti-corruption at small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Normally, SMEs do not receive much public...