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Francisco Díez-Martín received his PhD in 2007 from Seville University. He is an Associate Professor in the Business Economics Department at Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid). Francisco is a member of the European Academy of Management and Business Administration. He is Editor of Journal of Management and Business Education (JMBE). His research interests include organizational legitimacy and institutional theory.
Multinational companies face important challenges in host countries. When legitimized, these institutions may receive local communities' support and earn their right to operate. In this research we analyze the fundamental role that environmental policies play on the legitimacy perception of multinational companies established in emerging countries. We applied structural equations modelling, analyzing data of 157 experts' evaluations about 30 multinational companies which operate in South and Centre America (Latam). The results show evidence supporting the positive effect that environmental policies implementation have on multinational companies' legitimacy. The results highlight the importance of the dialogue with the local communities and the employees' environmental training when companies are trying to improve their legitimacy. The research contribution states in a major understanding of the effect of social responsibility policies in organizational legitimacy in the multinational companies' context, emphasizing the environmental commitment as a key factor for the organizational legitimacy in emerging countries. In addition, our findings provide new strategic guidelines for multinational companies’ managers to overcome the liability of foreignness.
Cristina Del-Castillo-Feito; Alicia Blanco-González; Francisco Díez-Martín. The effect of implementing environmental policies and employees' environmental training in multinational companies’ legitimacy level in emerging countries. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 312, 127817 .
AMA StyleCristina Del-Castillo-Feito, Alicia Blanco-González, Francisco Díez-Martín. The effect of implementing environmental policies and employees' environmental training in multinational companies’ legitimacy level in emerging countries. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021; 312 ():127817.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCristina Del-Castillo-Feito; Alicia Blanco-González; Francisco Díez-Martín. 2021. "The effect of implementing environmental policies and employees' environmental training in multinational companies’ legitimacy level in emerging countries." Journal of Cleaner Production 312, no. : 127817.
Researchers highlighted the need to increase our understanding about the effect of sustainability practices on employees. In this work, we argue that organizational legitimacy has a mediating effect between sustainability practices and employee loyalty. This structural relationship is analyzed on employees of Spanish public universities. Our results confirm the existence of the mediating effect proposed. The lack of organizational legitimacy makes sustainability actions irrelevant for employees. Results expand our understanding about the effect of sustainability among employees. In addition, they provide new evidence for practitioners in order to focus on organizational legitimacy for a better sustainability implementation.
Gabriel Cachón‐Rodríguez; Alicia Blanco‐González; Camilo Prado‐Román; Francisco Diez‐Martin. Sustainability actions, employee loyalty, and the awareness: The mediating effect of organization legitimacy. Managerial and Decision Economics 2021, 1 .
AMA StyleGabriel Cachón‐Rodríguez, Alicia Blanco‐González, Camilo Prado‐Román, Francisco Diez‐Martin. Sustainability actions, employee loyalty, and the awareness: The mediating effect of organization legitimacy. Managerial and Decision Economics. 2021; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGabriel Cachón‐Rodríguez; Alicia Blanco‐González; Camilo Prado‐Román; Francisco Diez‐Martin. 2021. "Sustainability actions, employee loyalty, and the awareness: The mediating effect of organization legitimacy." Managerial and Decision Economics , no. : 1.
Although the field of organizational legitimacy is undergoing great advances, academics are still facing the challenge of its measurement. Currently, academics are focusing on improving and homogenizing legitimacy measurement systems at the micro level. However, measuring legitimacy at the macro level has not evolved according to the needs and possibilities provided by new technologies. This research aims to develop a new methodology to measure organizational legitimacy at the macro level, capable of processing large amounts of information. To this end, an analysis of the news content of the 50 companies that make up the EuroStoxx50 has been conducted for a full year. By doing so, we make three key contributions to managing organizational legitimacy. First, we provide a more complete and reliable measurement of organizational legitimacy thanks to mass information processing techniques, providing a technology-based solution to the obsolescence problem of legitimacy evaluation models at the macro level. Second, we provide empirical evidence of the relationship between legitimacy and organizational success based on the analysis of mass information. Third, we show evidence that a bias is introduced in the measurement of legitimacy due to the use of different sources for this purpose.
Adrián López-Balboa; Alicia Blanco-González; Francisco Díez-Martín; Camilo Prado-Román. Macro Level Measuring of Organization Legitimacy: Its Implication for Open Innovation. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 2021, 7, 53 .
AMA StyleAdrián López-Balboa, Alicia Blanco-González, Francisco Díez-Martín, Camilo Prado-Román. Macro Level Measuring of Organization Legitimacy: Its Implication for Open Innovation. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 2021; 7 (1):53.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAdrián López-Balboa; Alicia Blanco-González; Francisco Díez-Martín; Camilo Prado-Román. 2021. "Macro Level Measuring of Organization Legitimacy: Its Implication for Open Innovation." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 7, no. 1: 53.
Public procurement has recently taken into account social and sustainable factors, increasing academic literature in this field. The aim of this paper is to map the intellectual structure of social and sustainable public procurement research by means of delimiting the scientific domain’s research traditions, its disciplinary composition, and influential research topics. Given that there is a literature gap in bibliometric studies applied to this field, we conducted a co-citation analysis to identify the intellectual structure of this area of knowledge. Co-citation analyses identify networks of interconnections and, consequently, detect the most (and the least) active research areas, being a good complement to traditional literature reviews. This article contributes to science development because it is the first paper to carry out a bibliometric analysis in the field of social and sustainable public procurement, as well as the first one to conduct a co-citation analysis among public procurement research. Consequently, it is also the first article to detect which papers have become burst in this research field. The results show twelve different clusters of publications that were cited by researchers who wrote papers on social and sustainable public procurement. In other words, the sources of knowledge that scholars used as references are analysed, identifying papers that can be considered turning points, as well as those that became specially cited over a discrete period of time. Six different research trends were identified over the last decade in regard to social and sustainable public procurement research. The conclusions highlight the relevance of the findings, especially because they provide guidance to researchers when conducting literature reviews, given that the most significant journals and papers are identified.
Jose Torres-Pruñonosa; Miquel Plaza-Navas; Francisco Díez-Martín; Albert Beltran-Cangrós. The Intellectual Structure of Social and Sustainable Public Procurement Research: A Co-Citation Analysis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 774 .
AMA StyleJose Torres-Pruñonosa, Miquel Plaza-Navas, Francisco Díez-Martín, Albert Beltran-Cangrós. The Intellectual Structure of Social and Sustainable Public Procurement Research: A Co-Citation Analysis. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):774.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJose Torres-Pruñonosa; Miquel Plaza-Navas; Francisco Díez-Martín; Albert Beltran-Cangrós. 2021. "The Intellectual Structure of Social and Sustainable Public Procurement Research: A Co-Citation Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 774.
The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of the state legitimacy on of the different countries’ entrepreneurial activity’s development, the opportunities’ perception and the entrepreneurship’s motivations. This paper is set into the research field which analyze how the institutional environment influence entrepreneurship in different countries. Research framework has been built based on the Institutional Theory. To develop the model we use a set of data extracted from the European Social Survey and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor about 28 European countries and we analyze them through Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling. Results show that state’s legitimacy influences the level of entrepreneurship in the different countries and the perception of the entrepreneurial opportunities and chances. Besides, the research shows that, in the scenario of the most legitimated countries, entrepreneurial activities is related to the need of self-employment. Based on the Institutional Theory, this research provide relevant contributions in the research field about entrepreneurship and countries’ institutions. From a practical point of view, the research shows ideas on how policymakers can improve entrepreneurial activity managing state legitimacy. Furthermore, the results provide new contributions in the research on the influence of the institutional context on the states entrepreneurial activity, providing an analysis and a comparison of the differences between countries, based on institutional theory.
Francisco Díez-Martín; Alicia Blanco-González; Giorgia Miotto. The impact of state legitimacy on entrepreneurial activity. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 2021, 1 -21.
AMA StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín, Alicia Blanco-González, Giorgia Miotto. The impact of state legitimacy on entrepreneurial activity. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. 2021; ():1-21.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín; Alicia Blanco-González; Giorgia Miotto. 2021. "The impact of state legitimacy on entrepreneurial activity." International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal , no. : 1-21.
Even though the Spanish Constitution establishes that Spain is structured into Autonomous Communities and that the principles of solidarity and subsidiarity govern the relationship between the different regions, very often Spanish media publish news about territorial inequality, conflicts, and independency velleity. The objective of this investigation, avoiding digging into the reasons for these claims, is to identify whether the region of residence influences the legitimacy of the Spanish state. The legitimacy of the state is the degree of citizen’s support to the institutions. This support ensures the law compliance, the proper functioning of the country and citizen commitment with the social system. State’s legitimacy is very much linked with the trust on politics and politicians. In the regions characterized by independency issues and conflicts, state’s legitimacy will be limited, and the perception of the state’s meaning and power will be more fragile and instable. The effective and appropriate management of the state and the relevancy of the central politics would be complex in these regions and, finally, regional inequality and fragmentation will increase. To achieve this research objective, we carried out an analysis of the state’s legitimacy of each Spanish region considering the data extracted from the European Social Survey. The results of this research provide valuable information useful for regional political decision making and dig into the reasons why regional conflicts are rooted in the state’s institutions.
Alicia Blanco-González; Giorgia Miotto; Francisco Díez-Martín. Politics and Regionality: Does Region of Residence Affect the State’s Legitimacy? American Behavioral Scientist 2020, 65, 465 -481.
AMA StyleAlicia Blanco-González, Giorgia Miotto, Francisco Díez-Martín. Politics and Regionality: Does Region of Residence Affect the State’s Legitimacy? American Behavioral Scientist. 2020; 65 (3):465-481.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlicia Blanco-González; Giorgia Miotto; Francisco Díez-Martín. 2020. "Politics and Regionality: Does Region of Residence Affect the State’s Legitimacy?" American Behavioral Scientist 65, no. 3: 465-481.
Measuring organizational legitimacy has become a challenge for researchers because they face a multilevel construct, where diverse terminologies, approaches, and evaluators converge. As a consequence, researchers have developed different conceptual proposals that have, in turn, given rise to multiple measurement methodologies, generating some uncertainty among researchers about the best measurement instrument. These methodologies are not generalizable to other contexts, do not integrate the different approaches to assessing legitimacy, nor do they explain their suitability for specific contexts. This paper proposes a general process for measuring organizational legitimacy in any context and across different terminologies, while providing criteria for a justified choice of measurement instrument. The study differentiates between organizational legitimacy measurements based on perceptions and secondary data, as well as between legitimacy as a global or as a dimensions-based judgment. We also present a broader typology of legitimacy dimensions that includes diverse fields of knowledge, avoids overlapping dimensions, and provides concept definitions in order to facilitate understanding by researchers and managers.
Francisco Díez-Martín; Alicia Blanco-González; Emilio Díez-De-Castro. Measuring a scientifically multifaceted concept. The jungle of organizational legitimacy. European Research on Management and Business Economics 2020, 27, 100131 .
AMA StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín, Alicia Blanco-González, Emilio Díez-De-Castro. Measuring a scientifically multifaceted concept. The jungle of organizational legitimacy. European Research on Management and Business Economics. 2020; 27 (1):100131.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín; Alicia Blanco-González; Emilio Díez-De-Castro. 2020. "Measuring a scientifically multifaceted concept. The jungle of organizational legitimacy." European Research on Management and Business Economics 27, no. 1: 100131.
Francisco Diez-Martin; Alicia Blanco-González; Alberto Prado-Román. Cluster Innovation. Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2020, 287 -290.
AMA StyleFrancisco Diez-Martin, Alicia Blanco-González, Alberto Prado-Román. Cluster Innovation. Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2020; ():287-290.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancisco Diez-Martin; Alicia Blanco-González; Alberto Prado-Román. 2020. "Cluster Innovation." Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship , no. : 287-290.
Francisco Diez-Martin; Alicia Blanco-González; Ana Cruz-Suárez. Cluster Performance. Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2020, 290 -294.
AMA StyleFrancisco Diez-Martin, Alicia Blanco-González, Ana Cruz-Suárez. Cluster Performance. Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2020; ():290-294.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancisco Diez-Martin; Alicia Blanco-González; Ana Cruz-Suárez. 2020. "Cluster Performance." Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship , no. : 290-294.
The existence of ethical and deontological codes is a reality integrated in highly competitive sectors, such as the medical sector or the legal profession. Most studies on ethics and deontology focus on the way in which they are communicated and their effectiveness. However, no special interest has been paid to the existence, application and content of ethics and deontology in the university sector and its relationship with the transmission of ethical and deontological principles to students. Professionals, employees and managers who will play their role in society, perform their work in companies or develop strategic plans, are trained at universities, which must play an important role in the ethical and deontological training of future social actors. Therefore, it is necessary to respond to whether public universities have codes of ethics and whether the fact of having these codes implies a greater commitment to the inclusion of ethical values in their training programs. To this end, Spanish public universities are analyzed and the results, which are grouped by areas of knowledge, are presented. The results achieved provide useful insight for university managers concerned with implementing ethical and responsible policies.
Rafael Delgado-Alemany; Alicia Blanco-González; Francisco Díez-Martín. Ethics and Deontology in Spanish Public Universities. Education Sciences 2020, 10, 259 .
AMA StyleRafael Delgado-Alemany, Alicia Blanco-González, Francisco Díez-Martín. Ethics and Deontology in Spanish Public Universities. Education Sciences. 2020; 10 (9):259.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRafael Delgado-Alemany; Alicia Blanco-González; Francisco Díez-Martín. 2020. "Ethics and Deontology in Spanish Public Universities." Education Sciences 10, no. 9: 259.
This research aims to analyze the contribution of social responsibility to the work involvement of employees through its influence on social capital, legitimacy and loyalty and which entail benefits for the organization such as its survival and its competitive advantage. The data for the empirical analysis were obtained through an online survey in the field of higher education. The data was processed using the structural equations technique (PLS‐SEM). The findings show that, social responsibility significantly influences employees' organizational legitimacy. Social responsibility does not have a positive effect on employees' social capital directly, but through legitimacy. Social capital has a positive influence on employees' loyalty. Managers must make the social responsibility actions known to their employees and should involve them in these actions. This study is an original contribution in assessing the positive effects of social responsibility on social capital, legitimacy, and loyalty from the point of view of employees.
Alicia Blanco‐Gonzalez; Francisco Diez-Martin; Gabriel Cachón‐Rodríguez; Camilo Prado‐Román. Contribution of social responsibility to the work involvement of employees. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 2020, 27, 2588 -2598.
AMA StyleAlicia Blanco‐Gonzalez, Francisco Diez-Martin, Gabriel Cachón‐Rodríguez, Camilo Prado‐Román. Contribution of social responsibility to the work involvement of employees. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 2020; 27 (6):2588-2598.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlicia Blanco‐Gonzalez; Francisco Diez-Martin; Gabriel Cachón‐Rodríguez; Camilo Prado‐Román. 2020. "Contribution of social responsibility to the work involvement of employees." Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 27, no. 6: 2588-2598.
As a result of growing interest in the relationship between organizational legitimacy and survival, the flow of publications in the field makes it difficult to maintain a birds-eye view of the multiple lines of research. The purpose of this study is to map the intellectual structure of current scholarship on organizational legitimacy. Through the study of bibliometric co-citations, we identify the most active research areas in organizational legitimacy, their sub-disciplinary composition, patterns of interrelationship, the most influential subject matters and transformative discoveries. This paper contributes to the literature on organizational legitimacy by facilitating quick understanding of the intellectual structure of the field and identifying future lines of research.
Francisco Díez-Martín; Alicia Blanco-González; Camilo Prado-Román. The intellectual structure of organizational legitimacy research: a co-citation analysis in business journals. Review of Managerial Science 2020, 15, 1007 -1043.
AMA StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín, Alicia Blanco-González, Camilo Prado-Román. The intellectual structure of organizational legitimacy research: a co-citation analysis in business journals. Review of Managerial Science. 2020; 15 (4):1007-1043.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín; Alicia Blanco-González; Camilo Prado-Román. 2020. "The intellectual structure of organizational legitimacy research: a co-citation analysis in business journals." Review of Managerial Science 15, no. 4: 1007-1043.
In the public tender processes of large international contracts, the organizational legitimacy is considered a prerequisite to limit the risk of engagement with companies that do not have it. The instrument usually used by the contracting parties is the Pre-qualification Questionnaire, which acts as a real entry barrier for contractors to participate in subsequent tenders. In this research we analyze the legitimacy requirement in tender processes. We focus on large contracts, mainly for the public sector but not limited to, based on documents accessible through public digital media. The research defines and provides content to the variables that shape the different legitimacy sorts required to the organizations to participate in large construction and trade tenders. The results suggest that the legitimacy requirements to the bidders are multidimensional, which entails that to participate in public tenders several legitimacy dimensions are evaluated. The weight of the different kinds of legitimacy in relation to the legitimacy global requirements is also analyzed.
Emilio Díez-De-Castro; Francisco Díez-Martín; Martin Madrid-Sanz. The Organizational Legitimacy as an Entry Barrier in Large International Contracts. Harvard Deusto Business Research 2019, 8, 175 .
AMA StyleEmilio Díez-De-Castro, Francisco Díez-Martín, Martin Madrid-Sanz. The Organizational Legitimacy as an Entry Barrier in Large International Contracts. Harvard Deusto Business Research. 2019; 8 (2):175.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmilio Díez-De-Castro; Francisco Díez-Martín; Martin Madrid-Sanz. 2019. "The Organizational Legitimacy as an Entry Barrier in Large International Contracts." Harvard Deusto Business Research 8, no. 2: 175.
Great progress has been made in the field of marketing and sustainability. Nevertheless, there is still an important gap between the behavior and beliefs of society and markets about sustainability, and companies’ capability to understand and face this trend. Digital marketing is key to filling this gap. However, research in digital marketing and sustainability is very scarce. The purpose of this research is to examine the literature in the subject, since 2009 until 2018, and to elaborate a research agenda about digital marketing and sustainability. Through a previous analysis based on bibliometrics, a research agenda has been developed that shows the main challenges for the digital marketing and sustainability field: (1) customer orientation and value proposition; (2) digital consumer’s behavior; (3) digital green marketing; (4) competitive advantage; (5) supply chain; and (6) capabilities. This work contributes to the development of the research in digital marketing and sustainability, suggesting various challenges for the field that lead to future lines of research, and favoring the development of a new research approach capable of reducing the existing gap between society and business on sustainability issues.
Francisco Diez-Martin; Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez; Camilo Prado-Roman. Research Challenges in Digital Marketing: Sustainability. Sustainability 2019, 11, 2839 .
AMA StyleFrancisco Diez-Martin, Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez, Camilo Prado-Roman. Research Challenges in Digital Marketing: Sustainability. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (10):2839.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancisco Diez-Martin; Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez; Camilo Prado-Roman. 2019. "Research Challenges in Digital Marketing: Sustainability." Sustainability 11, no. 10: 2839.
This research analyzes the consumer’s dissatisfaction regarding any possible failure made by brands or companies. In order to do this, the behavior, feelings, and negative and even aggressive behavior that costumers can have towards a company, product or brand are thoroughly studied. It is a relatively unexplored research field within the academic literature, in spite of being a subject of great repercussion or relevance at the present time. For this purpose, a study on bibliometric analysis has been carried out to verify the degree of relevance of this topic in the scientific field, discovering who are the authorities of the same, the life cycle of the articles on this subject, the articles keywords or their connections. With all this, we can deepen the academic literature, establish the knowledge structure in this area and propose future empirical research lines.
Laura Pascual-Nebreda; Alicia Blanco-González; Francisco Díez-Martín. Bibliometric Analysis on Customer Dissatisfaction. Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems 2018, 1 -11.
AMA StyleLaura Pascual-Nebreda, Alicia Blanco-González, Francisco Díez-Martín. Bibliometric Analysis on Customer Dissatisfaction. Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems. 2018; ():1-11.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Pascual-Nebreda; Alicia Blanco-González; Francisco Díez-Martín. 2018. "Bibliometric Analysis on Customer Dissatisfaction." Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems , no. : 1-11.
This paper analyzes the roll emotions play in organizational legitimacy. In contrast to literature about organizational legitimacy, we suggest emotions are crucial to provide legitimacy to some organizations where feelings usually are essential to have a bond with them. 36 interviews about 5 types of organizations were developed: religious, sport, cultural and educational organizations and NGOs. The results confirmed and extended the constructs of emotional legitimacy provided in the literature. From a managerial perspective and in order to obtain emotional legitimacy, our results confirm the need of taking long-term actions instead of being short-sighted. From a theoretical point of view, emotions arising from organizations with legitimacy are assessed and analyzed.
Francisco Díez-Martín; Camilo Prado-Román; Ana Cruz-Suárez; Emilio Díez-De-Castro. Emotional Legitimacy. Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems 2018, 188 -199.
AMA StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín, Camilo Prado-Román, Ana Cruz-Suárez, Emilio Díez-De-Castro. Emotional Legitimacy. Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems. 2018; ():188-199.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín; Camilo Prado-Román; Ana Cruz-Suárez; Emilio Díez-De-Castro. 2018. "Emotional Legitimacy." Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems , no. : 188-199.
The state legitimacy is the degree of citizen support to their state and a key of competitiveness and economical and social development. This research analyzes the level of state legitimacy across the belongingness to groups of population because the citizens can give different legitimacy scores to the State. It introduces the state legitimacy in France and its segmentation variables such as nationality, age, religion or political ideology. Source data for this study is derived from the last round of European Social Survey (ESS) for France in 2014. With a sample of 1.917 citizens it is proved that political ideology, age, political interest or affective state determine different scores in the state legitimacy. These results are relevant for government since it can establish which are the most sensitive groups and develop effective social politics and communication campaigns. The objective of the state is obtaining the trust within its institutions and citizen satisfaction, and besides an analysis depending on the membership group offers detailed information. Moreover, the management of the legitimacy guarantees the stability and quality of the institutions that is a precursor to social innovation.
Alicia Blanco-González; Camilo Prado-Román; Francisco Díez-Martín. State Legitimacy in France as a Determinant of Competitiveness and Social Innovation. Strategies and Best Practices in Social Innovation 2018, 119 -129.
AMA StyleAlicia Blanco-González, Camilo Prado-Román, Francisco Díez-Martín. State Legitimacy in France as a Determinant of Competitiveness and Social Innovation. Strategies and Best Practices in Social Innovation. 2018; ():119-129.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlicia Blanco-González; Camilo Prado-Román; Francisco Díez-Martín. 2018. "State Legitimacy in France as a Determinant of Competitiveness and Social Innovation." Strategies and Best Practices in Social Innovation , no. : 119-129.
The legitimacy of organizations is a conceptual and scientific approach developed theoretically from different disciplines. For the measurement and analysis of legitimacy, researchers have developed typologies, coinciding in many aspects, but with significant differences in others. The diversity of typologies has its origin in the scientific theories not only on which framework the researchers who create them move but also in the object and method of analysis. This has led to the emergence of a profusion of terms used to evaluate the legitimacy of organizations. This gives rise to a jungle of terminology that makes it difficult for researchers to work, especially when empirical research is done. The present work establishes a typology of legitimacy, by taking into account the contributions of different authors, who contribute to define different aspects of the legitimacy of organizations. At the same time, we divide some concepts to achieve a greater clarity and definition of them, a relevant issue when trying to measure and evaluate. In this way, we create a somewhat broader typology than we usually find, defining eight types of legitimacy rather than the three or four types that we generally find in the literature.
Emilio Pablo Díez de Castro; Marta Peris-Ortiz; Francisco Díez-Martín. Criteria for Evaluating the Organizational Legitimacy: A Typology for Legitimacy Jungle. Organizational Legitimacy 2018, 1 -21.
AMA StyleEmilio Pablo Díez de Castro, Marta Peris-Ortiz, Francisco Díez-Martín. Criteria for Evaluating the Organizational Legitimacy: A Typology for Legitimacy Jungle. Organizational Legitimacy. 2018; ():1-21.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmilio Pablo Díez de Castro; Marta Peris-Ortiz; Francisco Díez-Martín. 2018. "Criteria for Evaluating the Organizational Legitimacy: A Typology for Legitimacy Jungle." Organizational Legitimacy , no. : 1-21.
Organizational legitimacy has raised great concern in management research; however, no bibliometric studies have been conducted in this field. The aim of this paper is to show the structure formed by the countries and institutions that contribute to research on organizational legitimacy. The development and evolution of organizational legitimacy as a field of study is shown through a bibliometric study in four 5-year periods (from 1995 to 2014). The results provide information on the main countries and institutions that contribute to research in the field of organizational legitimacy, the lines of research that have been developed and who share them, how legitimacy research between countries and institutions is related, which countries and institutions represent real turning points in this field and how the dissemination of organizational legitimacy research between countries and institutions has evolved. In general, this paper shows how since the beginning of research on the concept of legitimacy applied to organizations and the countries that have generated the highest frequency of citations are the USA, Canada, England and Australia, followed later by China, the Netherlands, France and Spain, while the institutions with the most significant frequencies are Univ. of Alberta, Penn State Univ., Harvard Univ., Warwick Univ., York Univ. and Erasmus Univ. This study provides a comprehensive review of the contributors to the discipline of organizational legitimacy, different schools and lines of research, as well as a starting point for future researchers to continue to build a solid theoretical base.
Francisco Díez-Martín; Louis Diez; Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez. Organizational Legitimacy Research: Contributing Countries and Institutions from 1995 to 2014. Organizational Legitimacy 2018, 45 -68.
AMA StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín, Louis Diez, Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez. Organizational Legitimacy Research: Contributing Countries and Institutions from 1995 to 2014. Organizational Legitimacy. 2018; ():45-68.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancisco Díez-Martín; Louis Diez; Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez. 2018. "Organizational Legitimacy Research: Contributing Countries and Institutions from 1995 to 2014." Organizational Legitimacy , no. : 45-68.
In this paper, we study customer's legitimacy preferences from the perspective of individual social profiles. By doing this, we aim to determine the influence of the social context on decision-making processes that derive from organizational legitimacy perceptions. Through data collected from a sample of 258 individuals, we relate five individual characteristics to four business legitimacy typologies using regression analysis techniques. Results show that individuals with higher social consciousness are prone to make decisions about organizations that take into account moral and regulatory legitimacy perceptions. However, low-trust customers and customers with high decision visibility are more likely to assess organizations based on cognitive and pragmatic legitimacy considerations.
Francisco Diez-Martin; Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez; Camilo Prado-Román. Factors Affecting Individual Decisions Based on Business Legitimacy. Journal of Promotion Management 2018, 25, 181 -199.
AMA StyleFrancisco Diez-Martin, Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez, Camilo Prado-Román. Factors Affecting Individual Decisions Based on Business Legitimacy. Journal of Promotion Management. 2018; 25 (2):181-199.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancisco Diez-Martin; Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez; Camilo Prado-Román. 2018. "Factors Affecting Individual Decisions Based on Business Legitimacy." Journal of Promotion Management 25, no. 2: 181-199.