Vaara, Eero and Tienar, Janne (2008) A discursive perspective on legitimation strategies in multinational corporations. Academy of Management Review, 33 (4). pp. 985-993. ISSN 0363-7425
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Few studies have examined legitimation in multinational corporations from a discursive perspective. To complement the existing institutional literature, we adopt a critical discourse analysis perspective that allows us to examine the microlevel processes of discursive legitimation. We provide an example of a media text— dealing with a production unit shutdown—to demonstrate how this perspective elucidates the various textual strategies used to legitimate multinational corporations' actions and their controversial consequences.