Leveraging Legitimacy for Innovation Management Through an Innovation Management System – A Longitudinal Perspective

• This paper examines an organization’s adoption of an ISO innovation managementstandard to systematize and lead its innovation efforts. We focus on how the ISO standard has acted as a legitimating factor for innovation activities in the organization.Theoretically, we clarify how legitimacy can be understood, and used to explain innovation management activities. Managerial implications include a suggestion to utilizethe ISO name and its approaches to innovation management.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)

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