The source of the literature

Singh (1986)

Aldrich & Fiol (1994)

Scott (1995)

Suchman (1995)

Greenwood (2002)

Archibald (2004)

Legitimacy dimension

Internal legitimacy

Social and political legitimacy

Regulatory legitimacy

Transaction legitimacy

Effectiveness of legitimacy

Regulatory legitimacy

Influence legitimacy

Attribute legitimacy

External legitimacy

Normative legitimacy

Results Legitimacy

Moral legitimacy

Expert legitimacy

Cultural legitimacy

Process legitimacy

Structural legitimacy

General specification legitimacy

Cognitive legitimacy

Cognitive legitimacy

Cognitive legitimacy