This research throws light on to the role of social issues in developing a successful information system. In a case study of a community health organization, we describe how IT management carried out an integrated set of actions over a two-year period to obtain legitimation for an Intranet system from its eventual stakeholders. We suggest that, in general, a failure to obtain such legitimation ...

This study is positioned at the intersection of legitimation and international entrepreneurship theories. It is a longitudinal ethnographic case study that explores the process of emergence of an international new software venture from an emerging economy and the effect this venture has on the process of industry creation in that economy. Data were collected over a two year period, 2010-2011, v...

GQM+Strategies is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to achieve overall business goals and assesses the achievement of such goals. Strategies are extracted from business goals based on rationales (contexts and assumptions). Using the proposed approach, which refines the GQM+Strategies model by extracting rationales based on the analysis of ...

This study aimed at exploring legitimation strategies used by two members of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (or Partai Solidaritas Indonesia, abbreviated as PSI) in justifying their party leader’s controversial statement on abandonment Sharia Law. To do so, it employed critical discourse analysis (CDA) with Leeuwen’s (2007, 2008) its analytical tool. The data were obtained from separate interv...

Along with the economic and defence sectors, cultural political sphere is an indicator of state's authority on world stage. A country's success in this area depends population's understanding government's appropriate actions. Therefore, a balanced strategy legitimization state not only justifies activities for citizens, but also solves number socio-economic problems. The study identified main e...

This study explores the links between climate change, consumer lifestyles, and legitimation strategies of sustainable firms. Our findings offer new insight into this under-researched area based on qualitative case studies four Nordic firms operating in industrial contexts. We find that change consciousness is a major driver for all firms’ sustainability-focused operations, but dynamics differed...

The COVID-19 pandemic sparked worldwide efforts to combat the health crisis, including vaccine development and distribution. However, varying political responses vaccination policies complicated public discourse influenced acceptance. This research paper employs critical analysis (CDA) compare (de)legitimation strategies used in Tanzanian speeches by two presidents: late President Magufuli curr...

This paper compares different strategies of legitimation deployed by the nationalist movements in Balkans and Ireland 19th early twentieth century. In contrast to traditional acc...