Legitimacy as Expressed versus Legitimacy as Experienced: Methodologies to Assess an Elusive Concept

Legitimacy-as-Feeling: How Affect Leads to Vertical Legitimacy Spillovers in Transnational Governance

Transnational governance schemes (TGSs) are interorganizational networks of public and/or private actors that jointly regulate global public policy issues, such as the prevention of human rights violations and the protection of ecosystems. Considering that TGSs mainly address issues of public concern, the general public represents a major source of legitimacy in transnational governance. We the...

Legitimacy of team rewards: Analyzing legitimacy as a condition for the effectiveness of team incentive designs

Article history: This article illustrates how t Received 27 April 2007 Accepted 5 February 2009

Research institutes as hybrid organizations: central challenges to their legitimacy

Research institutes, here defined as organizations involved in research and development but outside of the higher education sector and often in close cooperation with users, are found in most countries but not very well understood. This paper argues that institutes can be considered ‘‘hybrid organizations’’, caught in between dichotomous cultural spheres with differing values. To retain their h...

Introducing the Concept of Legitimacy of Participation

Iranian people, recreating the concept of Iran, Ferdowsi's thought, legitimacy

The role of people in recreating the concept of Iran based on the idea of Ferdowsi