Doppelgangers of the State: Private Security and Transferable Legitimacy

Phelps, Martha Lizabeth

doi:10.1111/polp.12100

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“…Compared to the transgressing organization itself attempting to bolster its legitimacy, such an outside signal of legitimacy by an actor that is itself highly legitimate is likely to be vastly more effective (Ashforth & Gibbs, 1990). In a sense, government support transfers legitimacy from the government to the transgressing organization (Dobrev, Ozdemir, & Teo, 2006;Phelps, 2014;Verhaal, Hoskins, & Lundmark, 2017). Therefore, the transgressing organization is imbued with additional recognition of its overall morality, independent of individual transgressions.…”

Section: Influence Of Government Support Of Misbehaving Organizations...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Bailout for the Outlaws: Interactions Between Social Control Agents and the Perception of Organizational Misconduct

Pichler¹,

Roulet²,

Paolella³

2023

Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge: Definitions and Antecedents

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When organizations engage in misconduct, social control agents play a crucial role in sanctioning them to show the enforcement of societal norms and reduce the risk of future deviance. We study the interaction between the government and the media, two key social control agents, in the evaluation organizational misconduct. While past work has focused on the influence of the media on the government, we theorize the influence of the government on the media. The government is a social control agent with supreme formal authority to punish misconduct, and thus its actions are of particular interest to the media in their evaluation of misbehaving organizations. However, the government, tied by conflicting demands, sometimes turns a blind eye to misconduct and supports misbehaving organizations for the greater societal good, instead of punishing them. How is the media's perception of misbehaving organizations affected by such government reactions? We explore this question by looking at the case of the 2008 government bailout of investment banks in the US, after those were caught red-handed for their involvement in the sub-prime financial crisis.Carrying out a content analysis of newspaper reporting (2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011), we show that the negative perception of investment banks and their misconduct is attenuated when they receive government support. Our work contributes to the emerging literature on the social construction of organizational misconduct and illuminates the interaction between government and media in the evaluation of behavior as organizational misconduct.

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Section: Influence Of Government Support Of Misbehaving Organizations...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Bailout for the Outlaws: Interactions Between Social Control Agents and the Perception of Organizational Misconduct

Pichler¹,

Roulet²,

Paolella³

2023

Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge: Definitions and Antecedents

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“…He further notes ‘the right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals only to the extent to which the state permits it. The state is considered the sole source of the “right” to use violence.’ Such a monopoly on violence is also arguably transferable to third parties such as private security providers, frequently relied upon in modern armed conflicts (Phelps, 2014).…”

Section: The Modern State and The Legitimacy Of Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The state is considered the sole source of the "right" to use violence.' Such a monopoly on violence is also arguably transferable to third parties such as private security providers, frequently relied upon in modern armed conflicts (Phelps, 2014).…”

Section: The Modern State and The Legitimacy Of Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Islamic State’s quest for legitimacy: An analysis of IS media frames in Dabiq magazine

Ubayasiri

2019

Media, War & Conflict

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This article focuses on the media frames of legitimization presented by the Islamist militant group the Islamic State (IS) in their English-language magazine Dabiq to justify their occupation and expansion in Iraq and Syria between June 2014 and July 2017. It argues that, similar to any other militant group, IS faced challenges in establishing, sustaining and projecting legitimacy of both the organization and its militant actions. Focusing on IS narrative frames of legitimacy in Dabiq, this article looks at how the group constructed frame hierarchies that built upon widely accepted higher-order meta-frames of Islamic belief and Westphalian devolution of state power, to lever support for lower-order frames that are of strategic advantage to IS. The author agues such narratives of legitimacy were vital in IS’s attempt to undermine the authority of the sovereign states they occupied, and were necessary to challenge the monopoly of state violence in order to legitimize its own use of strategic violence both inside the self-proclaimed caliphate and in its expansion.

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Spearin

2017

New Security Challenges

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Doppelgangers of the State: Private Security and Transferable Legitimacy

Cited by 8 publications

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A Bailout for the Outlaws: Interactions Between Social Control Agents and the Perception of Organizational Misconduct

A Bailout for the Outlaws: Interactions Between Social Control Agents and the Perception of Organizational Misconduct

Islamic State’s quest for legitimacy: An analysis of IS media frames in Dabiq magazine

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