Essays about: "Pragmatic legitimacy"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the words Pragmatic legitimacy.

  1. 6. 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/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Jana Shawkat; [2020]
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    Abstract : 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

  2. 7. 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 kommunikation

    Author : Adam Kurniawan Rumanda; [2020]
    Keywords : Legitimacy theory; Legitimacy dimension; Rhetoric strategies; Sustainability; Sustainability communication; Web-based communication; Scandinavian airlines; Aviation.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 8. 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 strategi

    Author : Eva Katzer; [2019]
    Keywords : Social Entrepreneurship; Legitimacy; Discursive Institutionalism; Global South; Sub-Saharan Africa;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 9. Combining mobility demand and climate protection in urban transport systems. Obstacles and constraints in the case of Berlin

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Inga Stumpp; [2018]
    Keywords : climate compatibility; legitimacy; urban transport systems;

    Abstract : Transportation is an essential part of city life. However the extensive use of private cars in urban transport systems leads not only to a decrease in public health and quality of life but also drives global warming through the emission of GHG. READ MORE

  5. 10. New Social Enterprises andOrganisational Legitimacy Challenges : An explanatory case study of the 2017 JU Solar Team. Why are there organisational legitimacy challenges for new social enterprises and how the JU Solar Team overcame them.

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : John Ingold; Alexander Jury; Erik Larsson; [2018]
    Keywords : New Social Enterprise;

    Abstract : Social enterprises is a relatively new way of operating a business that is becoming increasingly popular in our modern society and new social enterprises face a wide array of challenges in their start-up phase. A very common type of challenge that many new social enterprises face are organisational legitimacy challenges when forming collaborations. READ MORE