... such as parallel trend and placebo tests. Findings The essence of improved ESG performance following a successful VBP bid is a strategic behavior aimed at pursuing legitimacy. Internally, winning firms respond to policy pressure by proactively increasing R&D intensity, thereby optimizing their ESG...

...Chenhao Hu Purpose This study aims to examine how state ownership affects the time-to-enforcement – the interval between the occurrence of corporate misconduct and its public disclosure by regulators. Drawing on moral licensing theory, this study argues that the legitimacy surplus conferred...

...Zelin Tong; Huilin Liu; Diyi Liu; Ling Zhou Purpose This study aims to explore how brands’ degree of internationalization influences consumers’ attitudes toward brands’ engagement in cross-border philanthropy by taking legitimacy as a mediating mechanism. The authors further investigate...

... returnee entrepreneurs implement external or internal CSR in China, answering the call to distinguish between external and internal CSR. Drawing on a legitimacy perspective, the authors find interesting and seemingly counterintuitive effects of returnees on external and internal CSR, which also...

... frameworks. The idea that MNCs can channel FDI through existing subsidiaries for this purpose has not previously been discussed in the literature. The second factor that may influence how likely or intensively, MNCs are to seek political legitimacy and thus to invest in BRI-affiliated countries...

... and organizational legitimacy perspective, this study explores how LOR influences Chinese MNEs’ cross-border acquisition completions. Several hypotheses were tested by using a binary logistic regression model with panel data techniques based on data of 780 Chinese MNEs’ acquisition deals between 2008 and 2018...

... dependence theory, introduce the legitimacy formation as a bridging mechanism to MGRs to holistically examine the behavioral types of antecedents of MGRs in contingency with three critical contextual influences. Design/methodology/approach This study purposely chose a Taiwanese globalized logistic...

...Yan Guo; Liran Chen; Shih-Chieh Fang; Chen-Wei Yang Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a cross-level model of legitimacy-driven institutional change in a Chinese management context; in other words, changes that start out as legitimacy gaining processes by green enterprises but result...

... legitimacy building strategies for private firms in China. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the effect of both internal and external institutional factors on long-term legitimacy for private enterprises. The authors integrate stakeholder perspective and institutional theory to provide...