Search results for "legitimacy"

Social Proximity and Environmental NGO Relationships in Corporate Sustainability Reports

2014

This study demonstrates how three Finnish companies constructed their stakeholder relationships with environmental NGOs (ENGOs) in terms of social proximity in their sustainability reports between 2003 and 2012. The study identifies five types of stakeholder relationship between ENGOs and corporations constructed in the reports: monetary, management system, collaborative, dialogue and conflicting. Within these relationships the level of constructed social proximity and level of trust vary. The results indicate that, within the 10 years we examined, a change has occurred in the ENGO relationships constructed in corporate sustainability reports: they have shifted from being non-stakeholder re…

Configurations of High Corporate Environmental Responsibility with Regard to Business Legitimacy:A Cross-National Approach

2020

Solving the Surveillance Problem

2017

This chapter examines the way surveillance is discussed in the leading Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat after the revelations made by former NSA-contractor Edward Snowden. In 2013, Snowden provided journalists with documents that revealed the unexpected extent of surveillance conducted by security agencies such as the NSA. Drawing on Critical Discourse Studies and a Foucauldian view of discourse, this article understands media discussions following the Snowden revelations as discursive struggles where the legitimacy and future of surveillance are being constructed and debated. The article examines the ways the media formulates solutions to the problems posed by surveillance, and explores…

How are fans teams’ consumption behaviors impacted by their federations’ innovativeness perceived organizational legitimacy

2021

Fans’ consumption intentions towards their favourite teams’ products and services are essential outcome variables for sport federations and clubs. However, the factors that could affect these outco...

Police violence in West Africa : Perpetrators' and ethnographers' dilemmas

2012

This article explores the use of violence by police officers and gendarmes in Ghana and Niger. We analyse how popular discourses, legal and organizational conditions frame the police use of violence. Acts of violence by police are situated in this inconsistent framework and can be seen as legal and appropriate, despicable and brutal, or as useful and morally legitimate. Thus, every time the police use violence, they face a major dilemma: legally and morally justified violence can be a source of long-term legitimacy; but because of multiple possible readings of a certain situation (according to different, conflicting moral and legal discourses), the very same action has potentially delegiti…

Women's history and gender history: The Italian experience

2005

SummarySince the early nineteenth century political opposition became a central concept of political representation in constitutional monarchies. While this concept marked the political language of unified Italy on the national level, in local administration the legitimacy of political opposition remained an issue of dispute, as illustrated in this analysis of the political language in Bologna's city council. Local perceptions of national events, like Garibaldi's unsuccessful Mentana-campaign, assumed a significant symbolic meaning and challenged traditional understandings of local administration by introducing notions of political opposition. In Bologna, the second city of the former Papal…

National museums and nation-building

2016

National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750–2010: Mobilization and Legitimacy, Continuity and Change is a volume edited by Peter Aronsson and Gabriella Elgenius. Together with Stefan Berger...

Música, democratización y omnivoridad

2008

En el campo del análisis cultural, la teoría de la omnivoridad sostiene que los gustos estéticos han superado el esquema monolegitimista basado en la distinción jerárquica entre alta cultura y cultura popular y se han vuelto cada vez más variados y tolerantes. En este artículo, a partir del análisis de las prácticas musicales en España, en el contexto de la creciente difusión de la audición mediada, se estudia la evolución de las preferencias musicales; y se esboza el concepto de régimen de consumo cultural (en este caso, musical) como una herramienta analítica más compleja y adecuada que la omnivoridad. In the field of the analysis of culture, the theory of omnivorousness holds that aesthe…

L'impugnazione del licenziamento dopo il "Collegato lavoro"

2013

Nel ripercorrere la complessa e articolata normativa in materia di impugnazio­ne del licenziamento, la nota sottolinea come ragioni di carattere sistematico impongono che il differimento al 31 dicembre 2011 del termine di 60 giorni, previsto dal c.d. Decreto Millepro­roghe, non possa che riferirsi all'intero testo dell’art. 6, I comma, della legge n. 604 del 1966 come “novellato” ad opera dell’art. 32 del Collegato Lavoro. Analysing complex and articulated regulation about contestation of dismissal, the note underlines how systematic reasons require that the deferment to 31 December 2011 of the 60-day period provided by the so-called Milleproroghe Decree, should be referred to the entire te…

Democratic Meta-Deliberation: Towards Reflective Institutional Design

2014

Theories of deliberative democracy are popular for their promise that in a deliberative polity, democracy can realise both participatory politics and rational policies. However, they are also confronted with the allegation that by qualifying essentially non-democratic practices as deliberative, they inadvertently (or not) become accomplices in the trend towards post-democratic governance. A central example of such a development is the rise of non-majoritarian bodies to which governments delegate decision making, thereby de-politicising conflicts and turning democratic discourses into technocratic ones. This article adopts a systemic perspective on deliberative democracy, asking whether non-…