Levels of legitimacy development in internationalization: Multinational enterprise and civil society interplay in institutional void

Research Summary Typically, studies on subsidiary legitimation take the perspectives of compliance and isomorphism to examine multinational enterprises (MNEs') legitimacy; our study considers both isomorphism and institutional innovation perspectives to examine how subsidiaries, in collaboration with civil society actors, co‐develop various levels (degrees) of legitimacy in an institutional void. The study finds four overlapping levels of...