“Legitimacy constraints also emanate from the environment. Any legitimacy an organization has been able to generate constitutes an asset in manipulating the environment. To the extent that adaptation (e. g., eliminating undergraduate instruction in public universities) violates the legitimacy claims, it incurs considerable costs. So external legitimacy considerations also tend to limit adaptation.”

— Michael T. Hannan

Source: "The Population Ecology of Organizations," 1977, p. 932

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US-American sociologist of Stanford University 1943

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