Origin and Evolution of the Legitimacy Management in Higher Education

Cruz-Suárez, Ana; Marino, Domenico; Prado‐Román, Camilo

doi:10.35564/jmbe.2020.0007

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“…Bibliometrics help researchers understand the origin and evolution of a discipline, as well as to complete and expand the obtained results through a traditional literature review (Díez-Martín et al, 2021). Bibliometric methods seek to analyze the research and publication performance of individuals and to reveal the structure and development of scientific fields and disciplines (Cruz-Suárez et al, 2020;Zupic & Cater, 2015).…”

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“…Within the organizational legitimacy field, several bibliometric studies have been developed. For example, Cruz-Suárez et al (2020) analyze organizational legitimacy within the higher education field, and Díez-Martín et al (2021) focus on developing a generic understanding of the organizational legitimacy context. These last authors identify 13 main research lines in the legitimacy field.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Legitimacy in entrepreneurship. Intellectual structure and research trends

Gordo-Molina¹,

Diéz‐Martín²,

Del-Castillo-Feito³

2022

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From the beginning of the xxi century, research on organizational legitimacy has been frequently used to explain the survival of new companies. The need of being considered legitimated for new companies to improve their access to necessary resources to survive has called the researchers attention. This situation has favored the increase in the research about organizational legitimacy in the entrepreneurship field, which has augmented the complexity of obtaining a global understanding of the field´s current context. The aim of this research is to identify and visualize the intellectual structure of the research and the emerging trends regarding organizational legitimacy in the entrepreneurship field. The database is made up of the sources of knowledge and references on which the scientific articles published in the data base of the Web of Science (WOS) were based. Through a bibliometric methodology based on co-citation, we identify the main research areas, the most active ones, the main contributors, dissemination paths and emerging trends in the research field. This research paper contributes to the development of organizational legitimacy in the entrepreneurship field offering a comprehensive view of the situation of this domain, a starting point as well as a theoretical base for the researchers to build new developments.

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Legitimacy in entrepreneurship. Intellectual structure and research trends

Gordo-Molina¹,

Diéz‐Martín²,

Del-Castillo-Feito³

2022

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“…Companies’ reputation is no longer in the hands of the large budgets of communication department, nowadays corporate reputation is at the mercy of anyone who wants to debate about it. In this context, business schools are experiencing a moment of reputation crisis which get into a lack of legitimacy ( Cruz-Suárez et al., 2020 ; Pettigrew and Starkey, 2016 ).…”

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“…Considering that legitimacy can be improved thanks to a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable focused management ( Deephouse et al., 2017 ; Díez-Martín et al., 2020 ), to achieve the objective of understanding the business schools’ legitimation strategy ( Cruz-Suárez et al., 2020 ), we analyzed the topics and messages of their sustainability reports. With the objective of regaining legitimacy, business schools are strengthening their Social responsibility (CSR) strategies ( Cornuel and Hommel, 2015 ; Miotto et al., 2019 ).…”

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Top business schools legitimacy quest through the Sustainable Development Goals

Miotto

Blanco‐González

Diéz‐Martín

2020

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An organization acquires legitimacy when it operates in an appropriate and desirable manner, satisfying the stakeholders' needs and expectations. Stakeholders claim to business schools sustainable and responsible management, knowledge transfer and research. In the last years, business schools adopted Corporate Social Responsibility as guideline of an integrated and holistic approach for their legitimation process. The aim of this research is to understand how business schools are reacting to the criticism that affects them and how they are reshaping their strategies in order to fulfill stakeholders' expectations, and to confirm which UN Sustainable Development Goals are the most cited in the sustainability reports of the best business schools in the world. We perform a content analysis of the latest sustainability reports published by the top 50 business schools, analyzing the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. We highlight that business schools focus social responsibility strategies mainly to define the professional standards to train future leaders qualified to manage organizations with a social, economic and environmental positive impact for all the stakeholders and capable to shape a better world.

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“…Universities must be regulated by ethical principles, but also due to the fact that they are responsible for the training of future world leaders and professionals of any category, they must convey ethical and/or deontological training to future professionals [2]. This ethical training and training in values must gain relevance and the university must place emphasis on this type of training, since obtaining ethical knowledge is essential for the future employee, manager and/or entrepreneur [22]. It is an urgency and a necessity to educate in ethical values if universities want to train upright, autonomous and socially conscious students [23].…”

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Ethics and Deontology in Spanish Public Universities

2020

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The existence of ethical and deontological codes is a reality integrated in highly competitive sectors, such as the medical sector or the legal profession. Most studies on ethics and deontology focus on the way in which they are communicated and their effectiveness. However, no special interest has been paid to the existence, application and content of ethics and deontology in the university sector and its relationship with the transmission of ethical and deontological principles to students. Professionals, employees and managers who will play their role in society, perform their work in companies or develop strategic plans, are trained at universities, which must play an important role in the ethical and deontological training of future social actors. Therefore, it is necessary to respond to whether public universities have codes of ethics and whether the fact of having these codes implies a greater commitment to the inclusion of ethical values in their training programs. To this end, Spanish public universities are analyzed and the results, which are grouped by areas of knowledge, are presented. The results achieved provide useful insight for university managers concerned with implementing ethical and responsible policies.

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Origin and Evolution of the Legitimacy Management in Higher Education

Cited by 15 publications

References 48 publications

Legitimacy in entrepreneurship. Intellectual structure and research trends

Legitimacy in entrepreneurship. Intellectual structure and research trends

Top business schools legitimacy quest through the Sustainable Development Goals

Ethics and Deontology in Spanish Public Universities

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