Oksana Mont
Professor
Gaining legitimacy in contemporary world
Author
Summary, in English
This article investigates the links between environmental and social activities of organisations and organisational legitimacy. The recent overemphasis on the business case for voluntary environmental and socialactivities of organisations is undermining the attention to other drivers such as legitimacy concerns. Previous literature has discussed how the principle of legitimacy may underpin corporate environmental and social performance providing motives for managers to pursue corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies. In this article, we tried to advance questions that relate more to how
CSR activities could potentially influence legitimation efforts of organisations. We focused on two main issues. The first is how CSR activities play into the different legitimation efforts of organisations at cognitive and socio-political levels. The second issue identifies potential variations in organisational choices of CSR activities as legitimation efforts and the conditions that influence these differences as constructs for further empirical research.
CSR activities could potentially influence legitimation efforts of organisations. We focused on two main issues. The first is how CSR activities play into the different legitimation efforts of organisations at cognitive and socio-political levels. The second issue identifies potential variations in organisational choices of CSR activities as legitimation efforts and the conditions that influence these differences as constructs for further empirical research.
Department/s
- The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Publishing year
2008
Language
English
Pages
134-147
Publication/Series
International Journal of Sustainable Society
Volume
1
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Inderscience Publishers
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- CSR
- corporate social responsibility
- environmentaland social license to operate
- establishing
- legitimacy theory
- maintaining and repairing legitimacy
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1756-2546