Overview
- Deals with challenges related to legitimacy in hybrid organizations with real-world case studies
- Equips managers with tools for the systematic management of legitimacy
- Offers food for thought on stakeholder management
Part of the book series: Business Guides on the Go (BUGO)
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This book provides an overview of legitimacy-related challenges at hybrid organizations and demonstrates legitimacy’s importance for the strategic development of organizations. In a reader-friendly way, it addresses the question of how hybrid organizations can gain legitimacy from the perspectives of key stakeholders.
To do so, the book examines legitimacy management in the context of two real-world hybrid organizations – the Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine and the Swiss Center for Design and Health in Bern, Switzerland – from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It shows why the systematic combination of three types of legitimacy has the potential to optimize the level of legitimacy in emerging hybrids, contributing to their success. It also explains how organizational legitimacy can be operationalized using governance legitimacy, purpose-rational legitimacy, and value-rational legitimacy.
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About the authors
Christian Rosser is Chief Operating Officer at the Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine and a Lecturer at the Center of Competence for Public Management (KPM) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. As an expert on public management and administration, he has considerable experience in the management of hybrid organizations as well as research and teaching. His research on hybrid organizations, bureaucracy, and public administration has been published in various respected journals including Public Administration Review, Public Administration, The American Review of Public Administration, and Administration & Society. In 2009 he won the Marshall Dimock Award for the best lead article in Public Administration Review.
Conradin Pfaff is Deputy Head of a policy advising and analysis unit and Head of a Regional Analysis Team at the General Secretariat of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection andSports. He spent over a decade as a civil servant at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Department of Defence. In his various public administration roles, he accumulated extensive work experience in the fields of strategic analysis, geopolitical research and policy advising. At the same time, he developed a thorough understanding of the inner workings, decision-making processes and governance structures of Swiss public administration.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sweet Spot of Legitimacy
Book Subtitle: A Manager’s Guide
Authors: Christian Rosser, Conradin Pfaff
Series Title: Business Guides on the Go
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15171-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15170-5Published: 13 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15173-6Published: 14 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15171-2Published: 12 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-4758
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4766
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 96
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Organization, Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises, Business Ethics, Public Policy