A Summary of Studies on Organizational Legitimacy

Abstract

In recent years, more and more scholars have begun to explore the influence of institutional factors on the production and operation of the organization, and formed a new research perspective—institutional basis, and organiza-tional legitimacy is the " core concept " of the new institutionalism theory. This article through the domestic and foreign related literature, systematically ex-pounded the basic issues of organizational legitimacy, research perspective, dimension division and so on, in order to deepen knowledge and understand-ing of the organization's legitimacy.