INCREASING DISPOSITIONAL LEGITIMACY: PROGRESSIVE LEGITIMATION DYNAMICS IN A TRAJECTORY OF SETTLEMENTS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baba, Sofiane; Sasaki, Innan; Vaara, Eero
• 署名单位: University of Sherbrooke; University of Warwick; University of Oxford
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2017.0330
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 1927-1968
• 关键词: FIELD-CONFIGURING EVENTS; institutional change; ORGANIZATIONAL FIELD; life-insurance; turning-points; BOUNDARY WORK; strategies; TRANSFORMATION; Negotiation; mechanisms

摘要

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; yet this would be important to better understand progressive legitimation dynamics-in other words, how successive settlements may increase legitimacy in a long-term trajectory of change. This is a crucial issue, especially 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. Thus, we challenge previous research on settlements by showing how they should not merely be 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.