managing legitimacy :stragic and institutional approaches by suchman 1995

① this article synthesiszes the literature on organizational legitimacy , compare the leading stragetic and institutional approaches.
② there are three primary forms of legitimacy :pramatic based on self-interest; moral based on mormative approval and cognitive , based on compressibility .
③ the article examines stragies for gaining, maining and repairing legitimacy of each type .
之前的研究常用合法性这一概念，但是缺少对合法性的准确定义；本文提出了分类，指出应在何种意义上使用这一概念。并提出了获得、维持和修复合法性的具体策略。