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# organizational legitimacy
![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Dec 05, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[ethics]]
Set of ethical and value judgements of an organization made by groups and individuals outside the organization. ([note on p.103](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/SVPGS22V?page=1))
To maintain legitimacy, organizations must continually show they are functioning in ways that are consistent with socially-defined norms of conduct.
How an organization justifies its right to exist.
- [[normative legitimacy]]
- [[legitimacy through secondary outcomes]]
- [[legitimizing links]]
- [[characteristics of legitimacy]]
## Sources
[[Communication and Organizational Legitimacy - Seeger]]