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Emotional Legitimacy

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This paper analyzes the roll emotions play in organizational legitimacy. In contrast to literature about organizational legitimacy, we suggest emotions are crucial to provide legitimacy to some organizations where feelings usually are essential to have a bond with them. 36 interviews about 5 types of organizations were developed: religious, sport, cultural and educational organizations and NGOs. The results confirmed and extended the constructs of emotional legitimacy provided in the literature. From a managerial perspective and in order to obtain emotional legitimacy, our results confirm the need of taking long-term actions instead of being short-sighted. From a theoretical point of view, emotions arising from organizations with legitimacy are assessed and analyzed.

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  1. Department of Business Economics, Rey Juan Carlos University, Paseo de los Artilleros S/N, 28032, Madrid, Spain

    Francisco Díez-Martín & Ana Cruz-Suárez

  2. European Academy of Management and Business Economics (AEDEM) and Department of Business Economics, Rey Juan Carlos University, Paseo de los Artilleros S/N, 28032, Madrid, Spain

    Camilo Prado-Román

  3. Department of Business Administration and Marketing, University of Sevilla, Facultad de CC Economicas y Empresariales, Avda. Ramon y Cajal, S/N, 41018, Seville, Spain

    Emilio Díez-de-Castro

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Díez-Martín, F., Prado-Román, C., Cruz-Suárez, A., Díez-de-Castro, E. (2019). Emotional Legitimacy. In: Gil-Lafuente, J., Marino, D., Morabito, F. (eds) Economy, Business and Uncertainty: New Ideas for a Euro-Mediterranean Industrial Policy. AEDEM 2017. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 180. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00677-8_16

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