Declarations on goals and organizational legitimation

Resumo

This paper reports on an analysis of public statements by 17 organizations (eight multinational corporations and nine government agencies in Brazil) which defined their goals in terms of three "legitimizers": the usefulness of organizational purposes, their compatibility with societal goals and the transcendence of organizational endeavors. In this light, statements of goals are regarded as metaphors of organizational legitimacy. Charles Perrow's typology of goals was found to correspond to an inventory of rhetorical topics used in the symbolic construction of organizational legitimacy.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

1991

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE)

Fonte

Revista de Administração Pública

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/9005

Palavras-chave

Organizations-goalsorganizations-legitimacyorganizational discourseorganizational symbolism.Organizaciones-metasorganizaciones de legitimidaddiscurso de la organizaciónsimbolismo organizacional.Organizações-objetivosorganizações-legitimidadediscurso organizacional