...Kristof Steyvers; Tessa Haesevoets; Arne Roets; Bram Verschuere; Bram Wauters; Liese Berkvens; Nina De Smedt; Willem Goutry; Ruben Vanseveren Purpose With the rise of participatory governance, questions emerge about the perceived legitimacy of public decision-making. Existing research often...

...Dion Curry Purpose This paper examines to what extent blockchain creates legitimacy and trust in different modes of public governance. It posits that while blockchain aims for political legitimacy through decentralising, immutable and consensus-based mechanisms, the execution of these mechanisms...

... responses from municipality decision-makers. The data analysis is based on a qualitative content analysis to examine legitimation arguments. Findings Results show that unestablished legitimacy and un-institutionalised support structures for co-production models build mistrust between CBSEs...

...Giovanna Dabbicco; Ileana Steccolini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at the European public sector accounting standards (EPSAS) project development path to explore how governance and legitimacy issues intertwine when a new standard-setting system is developed. Design/methodology...

... of different theoretical approaches (Gray et al., 1995). This is justified because reporting is a complex practice that requires the use of combined theories to explain how and why institutions are disclosing information (Brown and Deegan, 1998). In line with the previous literature, the legitimacy...

... roles exist and are provided with legitimacy deriving from legal norms, historical settlements between professions and taken for granted arrangements, medical management becomes institutionalized, stability prevails and change towards new doctor-in-management roles is seriously hampered. Originality...