Strategic Alliances as Social Facts or Psychology of Legitimacy

Strategic Alliances as Social Facts: Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History

Author: Mark de Rond

Strategic alliances are generally analyzed as planned and rational developments with clearly measurable outcomes in traditional management textbooks. Mark de Rond argues that such a view is unrealistic. Instead, he emphasizes the social dimension and the importance of the individuals involved inside alliances. Based on in-depth case studies of three major biotechnology alliances, the book combines insights from social theory and intellectual history with more mainstream strategic management literature. It provides a thought-provoking analysis that appeals to the reflective professional as well as academic researchers.

Interesting textbook: Common Sense or While America Aged

Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations

Author: John T Jost

This book addresses how people think about inequalities of race, gender, class, status, and power, and it focuses on why social inequality is perceived as fair and legitimate. Work on stereotyping and internalization of inferiority helps to explain why the oppressed do not revolt. The book has important implications for leadership and politics and for understanding how businesses and governments maintain their legitimacy to customers and public audiences.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	List of Contributors
1	Emerging Perspectives on the Psychology of Legitimacy	3
2	Theories of Legitimacy	33
3	Reflections on Social and Psychological Processes of Legitimization and Delegitimization	54
4	A Perceptual Theory of Legitimacy: Politics, Prejudice, Social Institutions, and Moral Value	77
5	Blame It on the Group: Entitativity, Subjective Essentialism, and Social Attribution	103
6	Status versus Quo: Naive Realism and the Search for Social Change and Perceived Legitimacy	135
7	Tolerance of Personal Deprivation	157
8	Legitimacy and the Construal of Social Disadvantage	176
9	Individual Upward Mobility and the Perceived Legitimacy of Intergroup Relations	205
10	Restricted Intergroup Boundaries: Tokenism, Ambiguity, and the Tolerance of Injustice	223
11	The Emergence of Status Beliefs: From Structural Inequality to Legitimizing Ideology	257
12	Ambivalent Stereotypes as Legitimizing Ideologies: Differentiating Paternalistic and Envious Prejudice	278
13	Legitimizing Ideologies: The Social Dominance Approach	307
14	The (Il)legitimacy of Ingroup Bias: From Social Reality to Social Resistance	332
15	Conflicts of Legitimation among Self, Group, and System: The Integrative Potential of System Justification Theory	363
16	The Architecture of Legitimacy: Constructing Accounts of Organizational Controversies	391
17	A Psychological Perspective on the Legitimacy of Institutions and Authorities	416
18	License to Kill: Violence and Legitimacy in Expropriative Social Relations	437
	Index	469