The Sweet Spot of Legitimacy: A Manager's Guide

This book provides an overview of legitimacy-related challenges at hybrid organizations and demonstrates legitimacys importance for the strategic development of organizations. It examines legitimacy management in the context of two real-world hybrid organizations and suggests that the systematic combination of three types of legitimacy can optimize the level of legitimacy and contribute to their success. It equips managers and executives with useful guidance and hands-on strategic tools to develop legitimacy management strategies and offers a source of inspiration for academic research and teaching.

Format: Hardback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 20 October 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This comprehensive book delves into the complex realm of legitimacy-related challenges faced by hybrid organizations, emphasizing its pivotal role in their strategic development. In a user-friendly approach, it addresses the critical question of how these organizations can establish and maintain legitimacy from the perspectives of key stakeholders. To achieve this, the book conducts a thorough examination of legitimacy management within the context of two real-world hybrid organizations: the Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine and the Swiss Center for Design and Health in Bern, Switzerland. Through a theoretical and practical lens, it explores the intricacies of legitimacy management, shedding light on why the systematic combination of three types of legitimacy holds the potential to optimize the level of legitimacy in emerging hybrids, ultimately contributing to their success.

Furthermore, the book elucidates how organizational legitimacy can be effectively operationalized through governance legitimacy, purpose-rational legitimacy, and value-rational legitimacy. By providing managers and executives working at hybrid organizations with valuable guidance and practical strategic tools, this book empowers them to develop robust legitimacy management strategies. Moreover, it serves as a valuable resource for academic research and teaching in the field of legitimacy management, offering insights and perspectives that will enrich the discourse on this critical topic.

Weight: 308g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031151705
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022