Legitimation in institutional complexity: a study of social enterprises in a multi-dimensional, emerging market context KU Leuven
This doctoral research works to understand how social enterprises legitimate in emerging markets, characterised as eco-systems of institutional void, where the absence of institutions is conspicuous, and “pernicious” (Dhanaraj and Khanna, 2011, p. 687).
The lens selected for the study is institutional theory which has as a central construct, the organisations ability to build, retain and maintain legitimacy. Yet ...