#💡 #🟡 # 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]]