How do organizations respond to the loss of legitimacy in the context of disclosed corruption, and what drives the particular responses adopted? In this article, we study the organizational strategies of three multinational companies before, during, and after legitimacy loss due to disclosed...

Multinational corporations are operating in complex business environments. They are confronted with contradictory institutional demands that often represent mutually incompatible expectations of various audiences. Managing these demands poses new organizational challenges for the corporation....

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...