The purpose of stakeholder management is to facilitate our understanding of increasingly unpredictable external environments, thereby facilitating our ability to manage within these environments. We argue that a powerful implicit assumption within the stakeholder literature—that priorities within rolebased stakeholder groups are relatively homogeneous—blurs our understanding of organization-sta...

As the power and influence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international debates on social and moral matters increases, questions concerning their legitimacy and accountability become all the more challenging. Some starting points are given for a defensible account of the legitimacy and accountability of internationally operating NGOs. Special attention is given to the use of new inf...

In the Paris Agreement of 2015, a reduction 49% CO2 emissions compared to 1990 was agreed. To implement this, Netherlands has concluded Climate Agreement, part which will include drawing up Regional Energy Strategies (RES). As ‘RES region’, provinces, municipalities and water authorities must work together make broadly supported regional choices for sustainable generation electricity. this stud...

legitimacy is among the factors that bring stability and effectiveness to a political system. in this article, the writer argues that there is a stronger tendency to keep and amend the basic rules of the system of the islamic republic of iran than to change and replace them. also, there is a stronger tendency to amend the present rules than to keep them as they are. political legitimacy, the wr...

How can the EU obtain legitimacy? On the basis of three logics of political integration we identify explicit strategies for how the legitimacy deficit of the EU can be remedied. The first strategy amounts to a scaling down of the ambitions of the polity-makers in the EU. It defines the EU as a problem-solving or special purpose organisation. Here the EU’s own legitimacy is held to be dependent ...

The growing concerns regarding sustainability and a firm's effects on the environment explain important role that environmental management may play in corporate reputation. Following premises of stakeholder approach dynamic capability theory, we explore how comprehensive (environmental innovation [EI] cleaner production [CP]) impacts By analyzing panel data European manufacturing firms, show EI...

We respond to Ron Weber’s commentaries regarding the necessity of a theoretical core in achieving academic legitimacy for the IS field. We examine the practical problems in identifying a theoretical core, clarify the ontological connection between identity and legitimacy, acknowledge mistakes in our earlier formulation criticizing the necessity of theory in legitimation, and attempt a synthesis...

We consider the extent to which individuals’ perceptions of an authority’s legitimacy affect their intrinsic compliance motivations. Identifying this relationship empirically is challenging because actions and institutions that might affect legitimacy generally also affect citizens’ material incentives. We formalize this identification problem and describe sufficient conditions under which a “p...

The stability and functioning of any kind of political regime—including democratic or representative ones—relies on the combination of the capacity of rulers and government officials to use coercion and the development of political legitimacy. Political legitimacy can be described as people's recognition and acceptance of the validity of the rules of their entire political system and the decisi...