Organizational Legitimacy, Reputation, and Status: Insights from Micro-Level Measurement

Research on the microfoundations of social evaluations requires microtranslation of concepts and measures used in macro-organizational research. The development of valid individual-level measures of organizational legitimacy, reputation, and status presents an essential step in the advancement of organizational theory toward a multilevel perspective on these constructs. To address this research agenda, we examine the dimensions along which one...