Ups and Downs: The Role of Legitimacy Judgment Cues in Practice Implementation

Jacqueminet, Anne; Durand, Rodolphe

doi:10.5465/amj.2017.0563

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“…Research on legitimacy, commonly defined as a ‘generalized perception or assumption that the actions of an entity are desirable, proper, or appropriate’ (Suchman, 1995, p. 574), has become increasingly prominent in management and organization studies – and, in particular, in institutional theory (Harmon et al, 2015; Suddaby et al, 2017) – to the extent that legitimacy has been described as ‘perhaps the most central concept in institutional research’ (Colyvas and Powell, 2006, p. 308). The significant scholarly attention devoted to the topic is evidenced by the increasing flow of papers devoted to the analysis of legitimacy (e.g., Castello et al, 2016; Etter et al, 2018; Fisher et al, 2016; Haack et al, 2014; Hengst et al, 2020; Huy et al, 2014; Jacqueminet and Durand, 2019; Lewis et al, 2020; Scherer et al, 2013). This line of research stresses that through legitimacy, organizations acquire ideational and material support (e.g., access to financial and human resources) and increase their prominence and influence, all of which are fundamental to their growth and survival (Zimmerman and Zeitz, 2002).…”

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“…Following these theoretical advancements, empirical research has started to investigate changes in propriety beliefs (Finch et al, 2015; Jahn et al, 2020) and to describe the promotion of propriety and validity through communication (Gauthier and Kappen, 2017). In addition, scholars have examined cross‐level interactions between propriety and validity (Haack and Sieweke, 2018) and elaborated the effect of these interactions on organizational change (Huy et al, 2014), practice implementation (Jacqueminet and Durand, 2019), and institutionalization (Arshed et al, 2019).…”

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Legitimacy Revisited: Disentangling Propriety, Validity, and Consensus

Haack

Schilke

Zucker

2020

J Management Studies

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Recent research has conceptualized legitimacy as a multi-level phenomenon comprising propriety and validity. Propriety refers to an individual evaluator's belief that a legitimacy object is appropriate for its social context, whereas validity denotes an institutionalized, collective-level perception of appropriateness. In this article, we refine this multi-level understanding of legitimacy by adding a third, meso-level construct of 'consensus', which we define as the agreement between evaluators' propriety beliefs. Importantly, validity and consensus are distinct and can be incongruent, given that an institutionalized perception can hide underlying disagreement. Disentangling validity from consensus is a crucial extension of the multi-level theory of legitimacy, because it enables an improved understanding of the legitimacy processes that precede sudden and unanticipated institutional change. In particular, while previous works considered revised propriety beliefs as the starting point for institutional change, our account emphasizes that the disclosure of the actual (vs. merely assumed) belief distribution within a social context may instigate institutional change. To study the interplay of propriety, validity, and consensus empirically, we propose a set of experimental designs specifically geared towards improving knowledge of the role of legitimacy and its components in institutional change.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Legitimacy Revisited: Disentangling Propriety, Validity, and Consensus

Haack

Schilke

Zucker

2020

J Management Studies

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“…Pragmatists may, for example, consider that recognition will result from the increased performance they envisage following the adoption of a new practice (Done et al, 2011). In this sense, this managerial profile most closely resembles the traditional view of a rational, goal‐seeking manager, who maximizes efficiency by ensuring the technical fitness of the practice (Jacqueminet & Durand, 2020).…”

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“…In this sense, appropriateness points to the perceived fit between the new practice and the organization's strategy and context (Bansal & Roth, 2000; Braunscheidel et al, 2011; Cordano & Frieze, 2000), a key tenant in the efficacy perspective. Rather than assessing the benefits for themselves, managers evaluate the change based on its implications for their unit's performance (Jacqueminet & Durand, 2020; Stevens et al, 2005). Because appropriateness relates to the perception of the usefulness of a practice, this belief encourages managers to adopt the practice (e.g., Bendoly et al, 2008; Bendoly & Cotteleer, 2008).…”

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“…Second, equifinality conveys the idea that multiple combinations can satisfactorily explain the same outcome. Although studies on belief configurations at the individual level remain uncommon, three notable exceptions (Bansal & Roth, 2000; Jacqueminet & Durand, 2020; Straatmann et al, 2018) present different configurations that are based on combinations of underlying beliefs that lead to the same outcome (i.e., adoption‐supportive behaviors). Third, asymmetric causation implies that both the presence and the absence of certain attributes may be connected to the outcome.…”

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Commitment follows beliefs: A configurational perspective on operations managers' commitment to practice adoption

Arellano

Meuer

Netland

2020

J of Ops Management

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Companies that seek to improve their operational performance by adopting new practices often report disappointing adoption rates. The literature concerning practice adoption has tended to focus on efficacy and legitimacy drivers at the organizational level. However, there exists convincing evidence that practice adoption largely depends on the commitment of those managers involved in the adoption of a given practice. Thus, we investigate what prompts operations managers to commit to practice adoption. We draw on the theory of planned behavior to explore the cognitive foundations of 76 operations managers' commitment to new operational practices. Using fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis, we identify three belief configurations associated with high levels of commitment—“the Follower,” “the Pragmatist,” and “the Reformer.” We contribute a behavioral operations perspective to the literature on practice adoption by providing an individual‐level and configurational view of managerial commitment to change.

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A study on the configuration of factors influencing overweight and obesity in adolescents based on fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis

Song,

Li,

et al. 2024

Journal of Adolescence

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ObjectiveOverweight and obesity among adolescents are grave public health issues around the world. Although the conditions that contribute to obesity have been extensively researched, little is known about how multiple conditions interact to cause overweight and obesity. The current study intends to investigate the histomorphic configuration pathways of several conditions of adolescent overweight and obesity by gender.MethodThe data came from a social survey conducted in June 2021 in Changchun, Jilin Province, China. The sample collected was 14‐year‐old adolescents, including 167 boys and 137 girls. The school physicians examined the participants' weight and height, and questionnaires were used to collect risk indicators from adolescents, such as sleep duration, electronic screens times, consumption of sugary drinks and fried foods, and physical activity. Simultaneously, a Fuzzy Qualitative Comparative Analysis will be performed to investigate the combinations of diverse conditions.ResultWe found that there is no determining necessary condition that, once present, directly determines that an individual is in a state of overweight and obesity. Simultaneously, this study revealed nine alternative configurational paths of overweight and obesity in teenagers of different genders, with a concordance of 0.805 for six male groupings and 0.916 for three female groupings. The outcomes of overweight obesity in adolescents under different genders are similar but not identical.ConclusionThis study examined the interactions of a number of conditions from the individual, behavioral, learning and living environment that led to the same overweight obese outcome among adolescents of different genders. Our research will be useful to policymakers in that interventions should take into account the combined effects of a number of different aspects rather than focusing on a single factor that causes overweight and obesity.

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Ups and Downs: The Role of Legitimacy Judgment Cues in Practice Implementation

Cited by 45 publications

References 3 publications

Legitimacy Revisited: Disentangling Propriety, Validity, and Consensus

Legitimacy Revisited: Disentangling Propriety, Validity, and Consensus

Commitment follows beliefs: A configurational perspective on operations managers' commitment to practice adoption

A study on the configuration of factors influencing overweight and obesity in adolescents based on fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis

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