Author(s)

Ping Wang, Dong Liu

Corresponding Author

Ping Wang

ABSTRACT

As an important concept in institutional theory, legitimacy has been studied more and more, and it is necessary to systematically comb the existing research of legitimacy to understand the current situation of legitimacy in the process of seeking to understand the creation, survival and development of enterprise organizations. This paper will comb through the relevant research literature of legitimacy, clarify the concept of legitimacy, the existing research perspective, and the important role of legitimacy in the organization's survival and the process of creation of legitimacy, and explore the future research direction of legitimacy.

KEYWORDS

Legitimacy; Classification of Legitimacy; Legitimation Strategy