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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Organizational Legitimacy"”.
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Organizational legitimacy of nonprofit service organizations engaged in HIV prevention among women
… ability to establish and sustain its legitimacy. Legitimacy has been defined as a manifestation of value congruence between an organization’s activities and the social system within which it functions (Dowling and Pfeffer, 1975). This study oxamines the multi-dimensionality of …
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Examining organizational legitimacy: an empirical analysis of organizational legitimacy, issue legitimacy, legitimacy gaps, and factors affecting the legitimacy regarding the issue of direct-to-consumer advertising in the pharmaceutical industry
… dissertation is to explore the concepts of issue legitimacy and organizational legitimacy in an issue management context, providing empirical data when little has existed previously. To do so, this dissertation used two studies to explore the trend and features of issue legitimacy of DTC-ads, …
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The Deaf Community and Accessible Website Design: How User-Friendliness Augments Organizational Legitimacy
This study examines the accessibility of the Internet for members of the deaf/hard-of-hearing (D/HH) community, an overlooked population in mainstream society. Fifty adult participants, with and without documented hearing loss, were recruited from several audiology and otolaryngology practices in …
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Institutional Integrity: Perceptions Of Organizational Legitimacy And Organizational Virtuousness In A Research University Setting
… by exploring the external factors and internal organizational characteristics that shape the integrity of research at a research university. Two theoretical constructs, organizational legitimacy and organizational virtuousness, frame this analysis of systems, methods, and activities used to …
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CMO: Chief Marketing Officer or Chief "Marginalized" Officer
… to greater influence. The two models diverge as organizational legitimacy is introduced. In one model, the Socially Contingent model, the CMO can only garner expertise power to the extent that s/he possesses organizational legitimacy. In such a case, CMOs that lack organizational legitimacy will …
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The impact of structural systems on perceptions of legitimacy and the experiences of female hockey players
… often play in one of three different gendered organizational structures: girls on predominantly boy’s teams, girls only teams within coed organizations (organizations with both boys-only and girls-only teams), and girls-only teams in girls-only organizations. All three of the organizational …
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4 Essays on Sustainable Development and Organizations’ Response to Stakeholder’s Expectations
… the organization’s survival and growth depend on legitimacy which reflects the social support and acceptance of its stakeholders, the institutions and individuals it interacts with. Organizations interact with internal and external stakeholder groups which not necessarily have the same legitimacy …
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An Examination of Image Repair Discourse in College Football Controversies
… public perceptions in the face of attacks to organizational legitimacy. This thesis contributes to the body of image repair literature by examining how unique factors of Division I football programs influence image repair campaigns. This project identifies the significant role that fan loyalty …
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TRANSFORMING THE IMAGE OF BLACK MASCULINITY IN THE NBA: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NBA CARES PROGRAM
… the league to find a way to reestablish organizational legitimacy and redefine and preserve the brand of the NBA. Using Walter Fisher's narrative paradigm as a framework, I detail the NBA's shift to social responsibility as a productive strategy to recreate the league's narrative of black …
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The duality of practices and its organizational implications: Adoption of new HR practices and consequences on innovation in Korean firms following the 1997 Asian financial crisis
… decoupling, and adoptions’ implication for organizational legitimacy. However, this vast literature appears to have largely overlooked a parallel set of questions about whether and when institutionally prescribed practices deliver the intended outcomes. The questions are important given the …
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The subfield of online journalism: a study of the legitimizing practices of online news organizations
… of the occupation of journalism. Legitimacy in journalism has solidified over time; but with the emergence of online media, traditional journalistic standards have been challenged as online news organizations attempt to establish a new standard. This study explores the changing …
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Voluntary disclosure of intellectual capital in Chinese (mainland) companies
… to various stakeholders; and to signal organizational legitimacy and excellence to the market. It was also found that all the impact factors other than ownership structure had a significant effect on the level of IC disclosure of Chinese firms in univariate analysis, while four out of …
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THE EFFECTS OF SUCCESSOR CEO’S ORIGIN ON AUDITORS’ CLIENT RISK ASSESSMENT AND CONTINUANCE DECISIONS FOLLOWING A CORPORATE SCANDAL
<p>This study examines the effects of chief executive officer (CEO) succession and successor origin on auditors’ client risk assessment, continuance, and audit effort decisions following a major scandal in a client firm. 83 experienced audit professionals drawn from U.S. public accounting firms …