Social license to operate: Legitimacy by another name?

Is sedentary behaviour just physical inactivity by another name?

The relationship between sedentary behaviour and physical activity and their role in the development of health conditions is an ongoing topic of research. This debate paper presents arguments in favour and against the statement: "Is sedentary behaviour just physical inactivity by another name?" The paper finishes with recommendations for future research in the field of sedentary behaviour, phys...

Social Capital and Institutional Legitimacy:

1 Legitimacy across the university : yet another entrepreneurial challenge

Introduction It is hard enough to build a strong entrepreneurship program within a school of business. For a quarter of a century those who pursued such programs have faced questions about legitimacy. Is the field of entrepreneurship a unique domain of teaching and research ( Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Busenitz et al., 2003)? Are the rigor, methods and cumulative nature of entrepreneurship r...

A Replication by Another Name A Response to Devilly et al . ( 2007 )

On the basis of a cognitive-environments conceptualization of dissociation (Freyd, Martorello, Alvarado, Hayes, & Christman, 1998; DePrince & Freyd, 1999), DePrince and Freyd (2001, 2004) predicted and found that under divided-attention demands, high dissociators, relative to low dissociators, recalled fewer trauma-related words (e.g., incest) and more neutral words that were to be remembered. ...

Refinements to Legitimacy Theory in Social and Environmental Accounting

" Legitimacy is a generalized perception or assumption that the actions of an entity are desirable, proper, or appropriate within some socially constructed system of norms, values, beliefs, and definitions " (Suchman, 1995, p. 574, emphasis in original) Legitimacy theory has become one of the most cited theories within the social and environmental accounting area. Yet there remains deep sceptic...