#💡 #🟡 # legitimacy as a retrospective judgement ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Dec 05, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[ethics]] Legitimacy is a byproduct of an organization's past activities and the efforts to retrospectively make sense of them. - Observers use norms, standards, and communication to retrospectively interpret an organization's actions and make judgements about its legitimacy. ([note on p.109](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/SVPGS22V?page=7)) ## Sources [[Communication and Organizational Legitimacy - Seeger]]