Abstract The rise of populists to power in many states around the world has caused concern among defenders multilateralism and so-called liberal international order. Due their frequent attacks on established organizations (IOs), are often falsely portrayed as unilateralists. Our article addresses apparent contradiction that populist leaders delegitimate certain IOs but actively legitimate other...

The relationship between the Tibetan prelate Tāranātha (1575-1634) and his major patrons, the various sDe pa of gTsang is a most complex one. In studying it I am increasingly aware that the wealth of detail to be gleaned from the various relevant texts is not just limited to the narrow study of the lives of just a few people, in this case those of Tāranātha and the various rulers of gTsang. Ind...

Abstract A growing literature has examined how international organizations (IOs) use narratives for self-legitimation—legitimation aimed not at external audiences but IO staff themselves. However, little work examines why some self-legitimation ‘stick’ and others fade away or are challenged by counter-narratives. I address this question focusing on the content of narratives. First, describe lif...

This article investigates differences between statistics on gender equality in Mexico, the UK and Sweden, similarities women professors’ career experiences these countries. We use Acker’s inequality regime framework, focusing gender, to explore our data, argue that lived are related an image of ideal academic. type is produced interplay university other regimes, reproduced through process struc...

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...

In this study, we argue that media-provided information affects investors’ impressions of newly public firms. In 225 initial public offerings (IPOs), the volume of mediaprovided information had a negative, diminishing relationship with underpricing and a positive, diminishing relationship with stock turnover on the first day of trading. The relationship between the tenor of media-provided infor...

Recently, researchers have started to pay more attention to a usually ignored topic: audience perceptions. Legitimacy, for example, is no longer modeled as the number of organizations in a population. It is now thought to be dependent on how audience members perceive these organizations. This paper will study how the newspaper industry in Lebanon emerged. The paper studies the period 1851-1879,...

Since James Carroll (1971) made a strong case for "participatory technology", scientists, engineers, policy-makers and the public at large have seen quite a number of different approaches to design and implement participatory processes in technology assessment and technology policy. As these participatory experiments and practices spread over the last two decades, one could easily get the impre...

100-150 ord) Responding to the climate change challenge requires a massive development and diffusion of carbon neutral technologies and, thus, emergence and growth of new socio-technical systems. This paper contributes to an improved understanding of the formative phase of new technological innovation systems (TIS) by outlining a framework for analysing TIS dynamics in terms of structural growt...