Research on the Legitimate Origin of Organizational Institution

The Efficiency View on origins of organizational institution has become less convincing for explaining new organization phenomena owing to its utilitarian characteristics.Social recognition,acceptance and trust are increasingly needed to shape and maintain the institution.When the scholars doubt about the traditional benefit's theory and reconsider the origin of organizational institution,they focus their attention on the concept of legitimacy.This study focuses on the views that organizational institution is formed through legal construction.In the review on the evolution of the concept of legitimacy,it describes the fundamental role and origins of legitimacy at first.Following that,we analyze institutional rationality and suggest that this rationality is also formed through the social legitimacy construction.At the end of this paper,we demonstrate an overlook for the future research of legitimacy.