ÖRGÜTSEL MEŞRUİYET: ÇOK BOYUTLU BİR OLGUNUN KAVRAMSAL BAĞLAMDA DEĞERLENDİRMESİ

Year 2020, Volume: 22 Issue: 1, 101 - 114, 22.06.2020

Volkan Yüncü

https://doi.org/10.33707/akuiibfd.686095

Abstract

Son derece önemli,
fakat çok katmanlı yapısı nedeniyle çoğu zaman kafa karıştırıcı bir kavram olan
örgütsel meşruiyet, sosyoloji ve siyaset biliminin yanı sıra, yönetim ve örgüt
alanlarında da büyük ilgi görmüştür. Bu kapsamlı literatür incelemesinde
araştırmacıların karşılaştığı kavramsal güçlüklerin bir resmini çekerek ve
temel tipolojilerde önerilen meşruiyetin çeşitli boyutları arasındaki
farklılıkları ve yakınsamaları ortaya çıkararak kavramı yönetim ve örgüt alanında
tartışıyorum. Bu noktada, söz konusu kavramsal güçlükleri kavramla ilgili
çalışma sayısındaki artışla doğru orantılı olarak inceleyen bu sistematik
literatür incelemesi, her disiplinin ve paradigmanın meşruiyet kavramını kendi
bağlamsal unsurlarıyla ele aldığını göstermektedir. Sonuç olarak, meşruiyetin
mevcut tipolojileri ve boyutlarının kaçınılmaz olarak bazı açılardan örtüştüğü
görülürken, bazı noktalarda birbirlerinden önemli ölçüde farklılaştığı
görülmüştür. Bu durumda kavram henüz geniş bir kavramsal konsensüsten yoksundur
ve farklı kuramsal bağlamların katkılarıyla kapsayıcı bir çerçeve oluşturmak
için daha bütüncül araştırmalar yapılması gerekmektedir.

Keywords

Örgütsel Meşruiyet, Meşruiyet, Meşrulaştırma, Kurumsal Kuram, Örgüt Kuramı

ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY: EVALUATING THE CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPE OF A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PHENOMENON

Abstract

As
a fundamental, yet often a confusing concept due to its multilevel
structure,  organizational legitimacy has
attracted great attention in management and organization research as well as sociology
and political science. In this comprehensive review, I discuss the concept
within the former scope by taking a picture of the accrued conceptual challenges
faced by researchers and by revealing the divergences and convergences among
several dimensions of legitimacy suggested in essential typologies. Herein,
this systematic literature review investigating these conceptual challenges in
direct proportion to the increase in the number of studies indicates that each
discipline and paradigm embraces the concept through its own contextual
elements. As a result, whereas current typologies and dimensions of legitimacy
are found to be overlapping in some respects, they are also observed to differ
significantly from one another in some other aspects. Accordingly, the concept
still lacks a broad conceptual consensus and more integrative future research
is required to construct an overarching framework with the contributions of
different theoretical contexts.

Keywords

Organizational Legitimacy, Legitimacy, Legitimation, Institutional Theory, Organization Theory

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