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This paper analyzes legitimation practices of international organisations in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse a sample of 252 major international governmental organisations (IGOs) and 250 international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), using information collected from their websites in September-December 2020. We seek to u...
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... observed legitimation practices reflect the importance of different dimensions of legitimacy ( Ossewaarde et al. (2008)), such as the regulatory dimension in the case of 'We comply' and the output dimension in the case of 'We help solve the crisis'. Table 4 reports how prevalent different types of symbolic legitimation were among IGOs and INGOs. Through various statements, organisations explicitly related themselves to the global efforts of mitigating the crisis, trying to persuade the public of the relevance of their organisation in the new circumstances and to reassure their compliance with new pandemic-related regulations. ...Similar publications
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