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4th International Workshop on Organizational Legitimacy- 8/9 juin- LA PAULIANE

4th International Workshop on Organizational Legitimacy

📆 8-9 June, 2026 | 📍 Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence (France)
 

We are delighted to announce the 4th International Workshop on Organizational Legitimacy, themed: Advancing Legitimacy Frontiers: New Perspectives and Challenges

Building on the success of the previous editions at the University of Lausanne (2023),  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2024), and EMLYON (2025) this workshop continues to provide an international forum for advancing legitimacy research in management and organization studies.


The workshop aims to:

  • Advance state-of-the-art legitimacy research

  • Provide developmental feedback on research-in-progress

  • Foster collaboration and intellectual exchange among scholars
     

🎯 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
  • Cross-border and transnational legitimation processes
  • Temporal dynamics of legitimacy judgment formation and change
  • Legitimacy in digital and AI-driven organizational contexts
  • Legitimacy and organizational responses to grand challenges
  • Novel approaches to measuring and operationalizing legitimacy
  • Legitimacy at the intersection of multiple institutional logics
  • Inclusive, minority, and migrant entrepreneurship and legitimacy
  • States of legitimacy along the legitimacy–illegitimacy continuum

 

🤝 Participating Experts include:
- Alex Bitektine, Université Concordia.
- Björn Claes, The Open University.
- Patrick Haack, PhD, University of Lausanne.
- Laura Illia, Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg.
- Anna Jasinenko, Universität St.Gallen (HSG).
- Gerardo Patriotta, University of Bath School of Management.
- Eric W. Schoon, The Ohio State University.
- Sonia S. Siraz, Ph.D , emlyon business school.
- Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria.
- Eero Vaara, University of Oxford.
 
The Organization’s team
  • Bénédicte ALDEBERT (Professor in entrepreneurship, Aix-Marseille University, within the Faculty of Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille, France)
  • Daisy BERTRAND (Research Engineer at CERGAM, Aix-Marseille, France)
  • Ramzi BENAMARA (PhD student at Aix-Marseille University, within the Faculty of Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille, France)
  • Ali GHODS (Associate Professor in entrepreneurship IAE Aix-Marseille Université, France)
  • Amandine MAUS (Associate Professor in entrepreneurship, Aix-Marseille University, within the Faculty of Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille, France)
  • Antonin RICARD (Dean of IAE Aix-Marseille University, Aix-Marseille, France