Legitimacy Under Institutional Change: How incumbents appropriate clean rhetoric for dirty technologies
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DOI: 10.1177/0170840617736938
Abstract: How organizations legitimate their actions under conditions of institutional change is a central yet little understood question. To address this gap, this paper investigates how incumbent firms legitimate investments in both novel and conventional technologies… read more here.
Keywords: rhetoric; legitimacy institutional; institutional change; clean rhetoric ... See more keywords