Essays about: "Cognitive legitimacy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words Cognitive legitimacy.
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1. A case study of the CSR communication strategies in the Nordic coffee industry
University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular SciencesAbstract : The global coffee industry faces many sustainability challenges of which serious adaptation and transformation techniques is required in order to get it back on the right path. The climate changes have already and will continue to affect the current coffee cultivation areas so much that some of the geographical location used for coffee cultivation today cannot be used for coffee cultivation in the future. READ MORE
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2. Maintaining legitimacy through CSR reporting in an environmentally sensitive industry : A longitudinal analysis of Swedish dairy companies’ usage of legitimacy strategies
University essay from Södertörns högskola/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : This research aims to describe and analyse how Swedish dairy companies have maintained legitimacy through their CSR reporting during the period 2000-2018. The research drew on Suchman’s (1995) conceptualization of legitimacy, focusing specifically on the three types of legitimacy strategies: pragmatic, moral, and cognitive legitimacy as well as Hahn & Lüfls’s (2014) legitimacy strategies on adverse aspects. READ MORE
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3. Communicating Sustainability Through Web-Based Communication: A Case Study of Rhetorical Strategies and Organizational Legitimacy in Scandinavian Airlines
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikationAbstract : Sustainability communication is an emerging concept in communication practice and become organization matters in term of organizational communication and organizational legitimacy. This study is taking from a sustainability initiatives point of view on how the organization communicates their sustainability initiatives in order to gain legitimacy and stakeholder support, particularly through web-based communication. READ MORE
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4. For the People, for the Planet: How Social Entrepreneurs in the Global South and Facilitators from the Global North Construct Legitimacy for the Field of Social Entrepreneurship
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategiAbstract : In efforts to leverage private sector approaches for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), social entrepreneurship has gained popularity drawing on a hybrid approach of business-minded strategies for pursuing a social mission. Legitimacy construction serves to justify resource allocation by facilitators from the Global North and pitch for resource acquisition by social entrepreneurs in the Global South. READ MORE
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5. From the Paris Conference to the Paris of the Yellow Vests: a laboratory for characterizing transition profiles and cultural repertoires to apprehend social and perceptive conflicts of sustainability
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This paper contributes to sustainability transitions studies in delivering stronger focus and relevance on culture and discursive features to apprehend social resistances towards transition agendas, and the unprecedented emergence of the challenging antagonism of the ‘end of the world’ versus ‘the end of the month’ revealed by the case study of the Yellow Vests crisis in France since November 2018. Aiming at opening the door to broader “ontologies” to transition frameworks, while supporting narrower profiles for the formulation of transition strategies, the paper initiates a narrative analysis and a tracing process to assess how the universal resolve of the 2015 Paris Conference and its established legitimacy of the sustainability discourse has been further contested by the Yellow Vests, and their fractured framing that would permeate the national public cognitive stage. READ MORE
