Institutional hearings as symbolic process: The re-legitimation of organizational practices
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description: The present study investigates how organizations reestablish legitimacy by symbolically managing the meaning of their actions when publicly accused of wrongdoing. During governmental hearings to respond to the allegations, organizations can make real changes in their structures and practices to reestablish legitimacy. In contrast to this substantive re-legitimation, symbolic legitimation refers to reframing the meaning of the actions to create the perception of legitimacy.
abstract: The present study investigates how organizations reestablish legitimacy by symbolically managing the meaning of their actions when publicly accused of wrongdoing. During governmental hearings to respond to the allegations, organizations can make real changes in their structures and practices to reestablish legitimacy. In contrast to this substantive re-legitimation, symbolic legitimation refers to reframing the meaning of the actions to create the perception of legitimacy.
author: King, Thomas Ray
language: eng
keywords: Business Administration, Management, Political Science, General, Sociology, General
date published: 2011-05-07T13:03:59Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:25:17Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/21278