Maintaining Legitimacy: Controversies, Orders of Worth, and Public Justifications

We build on Boltanski and Thévenot's theory of justification to account for the ways in which different stakeholder groups actively engage with discourses and objects to maintain the legitimacy of institutions that are relevant to their activity. We use this framework to analyse a controversy e...

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Published in:	Journal of management studies 2011-12, Vol.48 (8), p.1804-1836
Main Authors:	Patriotta, Gerardo, Gond, Jean-Pascal, Schultz, Friederike
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Agreements Discourse Discourses Disputes Europe Institutions Interest groups Justification Large enterprises Legitimacy Management theory Nuclear accidents Nuclear accidents & safety Nuclear energy Public sphere Reputations Stakeholder Stakeholders Studies
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