dimensions of legitimacy perceived by stakeholders. To this end, after elaborating on the role of legitimacy in organizational …

Research Question- How are corporate narratives used to build and restore corporate legitimacy? Motivation- Under … impression management strategies was documented. This reflected a general tendency to defend corporate legitimacy by favourably …

rather than functional accountability suggesting a response to the legitimacy challenge. The use of impression management … impression management and legitimacy literature to an NGO environment. It has implications for the development of these theories …

aspects” in particular can endanger corporate legitimacy if perceived by the stakeholders as not being in line with societal … substantial management of legitimacy. We show that symbolic legitimation strategies aiming at modifying the perception of …

Horizon oil spill would have heightened the need for such positioning to repair the company’s legitimacy. Design …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop theory regarding reputation and legitimacy signaling by organizations … attempts to signal either legitimacy or reputation have on audience approval. Findings The authors find that audiences react … differently to communication strategies intended to build reputation vs those intended to build legitimacy. Under conditions of …