caa a22 4500 605482950 CHVBK 20210128100428.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2072-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2072-4 Legitimation Work Within a Cross-Sector Social Partnership [Elektronische Daten] [Dominik Rueede, Karin Kreutzer] This study illuminates how a cross-sector social partnership legitimizes itself toward multiple internal and external stakeholders. Within a single-case study design, we collected retrospective and real time data on the partnership between Deutsche Post DHL and The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Within this partnership, Deutsche Post DHL provides corporate volunteers that support disaster response after natural disasters on a pro bono basis. The main objects that needed legitimacy as well as the audiences from which legitimacy was mainly sought changed over time. In addition, we identified legitimation work as occurring across objects, audiences, and time. Thus, we introduce legitimation work as the purposeful effort of the legitimacy seeker to avoid certain issues while ensuring other issues that are of importance to the conferrer of legitimacy. These findings contribute to micro-level considerations within institutional theory which view legitimacy as socially constructed between legitimacy seeker and conferrer. Hence, we add another perspective on legitimation to the previously existing conceptualizations of legitimacy as a deterministic consequence of institutionalization. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Cross-sector social partnerships nationallicence Institutional theory nationallicence Legitimacy nationallicence Legitimation work nationallicence Rueede Dominik EBS Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, Hesse, Germany aut Kreutzer Karin EBS Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, Hesse, Germany aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/1(2015-04-01), 39-58 0167-4544 128:1<39 2015 128 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2072-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2072-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rueede Dominik EBS Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, Hesse, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kreutzer Karin EBS Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, Hesse, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/1(2015-04-01), 39-58 0167-4544 128:1<39 2015 128 10551