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Increasing dispositional legitimacy : progressive legitimation dynamics in a trajectory of settlements
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Baba, Sofiane, Sasaki, Innan and Vaara, Eero (2021) Increasing dispositional legitimacy : progressive legitimation dynamics in a trajectory of settlements. Academy of Management Journal, 64 (6). pp. 1927-1968. doi:10.5465/amj.2017.0330 ISSN 0001-4273.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2017.0330
Abstract
By focusing on individual settlements rather than viewing them as part of a trajectory of change, prior research on institutional settlements has not fully captured the dynamics of longer-term institutional change. This is especially useful to better understand progressive legitimation dynamics; in other words, how successive settlements may increase legitimacy in a long-term trajectory of change. We argue this is a crucial issue for peripheral actors lacking the resources, status, or power of more central ones. Our historical analysis focuses on the long-term struggle of the Cree First Nation in Canada and explains how they succeeded in increasing their dispositional legitimacy in and through the settlements. This required work in three interrelated processes: expansive argumentation including problematizing of the state of affairs and creating discursive resonance with the prevailing discourses and values, building momentum by generating attention and exerting pressure in networks of actors, and seizing opportunities to negotiate with the other side. We challenge previous research on settlements by elucidating how they should not be merely seen as endpoints but rather as stepping-stones in a trajectory of institutional change. More specifically, we develop a process model explaining how progressive legitimation unfolds in a series of settlements.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1001 Canada (General) H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Institutional economics, Cree Indians , Indigenous peoples -- Canada, Human settlements -- Canada, Legitimacy of governments | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Academy of Management Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Academy of Management | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0001-4273 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 64 | ||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1927-1968 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.5465/amj.2017.0330 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 October 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 October 2020 |
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