Friday 25 January 2019

Communications and legitimacy

It is fun to get back blogging after a break of four years.  Now seems the time to do it as I get into my doctorate on how PR practitioners are working with organisational legitimacy agendas.  I am going to blog around the issues of legitimacy as I believe the process of blogging will help in developing ideas and commenting on agendas relevant to my doctorate.

The last few days of research have opened up important avenues for me to develop.  In particular Sethi's important work in 1975 on the legitimacy gap.  It is interesting that it took a later generation of authors such as Heath and Coombs to bring the legitimacy gap into mainstream communications literature.