IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prbchp/978-3-031-80692-6_31.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Legitimacy and Innovation. Looking into the Maritime Industry

In: Advanced Perspectives and Trends in Digital Transformation of Firms, Networks, and Society

Author

Listed:
  • Michele Acciaro

    (Copenhagen Business School)

  • Maria Cristina Pietronudo

    (Parthenope University of Naples)

  • Marco Ferretti

    (Parthenope University of Naples)

  • Marcello Risitano

    (Parthenope University of Naples)

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the concept of legitimacy within the maritime industry, highlighting its pivotal role in shaping firm behaviors and innovation outcomes. Legitimacy is understood as the societal acceptance of a firm’s adherence to norms and values, which significantly influences strategic decisions and overall performance. Specifically, the research centers on external legitimacy, where stakeholders outside the firm validate its credibility within the community, and investigates how this legitimacy—encompassing regulative, normative, and cognitive dimensions—interacts with network embeddedness. This includes both relational and structural ties with stakeholders, to analyze its impact on innovation outcomes. Drawing on insights from institutional theory and the family firm literature, the study aims to elucidate the complex dynamics that link legitimacy and network relationships to varying levels of innovation performance in maritime family firms. Anticipated findings suggest that high normative and cognitive legitimacy, combined with strong network ties, may paradoxically lead to lower innovation performance. The chapter contributes to both family firm and maritime management literature by elucidating underexplored dynamics of legitimacy and network effects on innovation.

Suggested Citation

  • Michele Acciaro & Maria Cristina Pietronudo & Marco Ferretti & Marcello Risitano, 2025. "Legitimacy and Innovation. Looking into the Maritime Industry," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Francesco Schiavone & Nessrine Omrani & Heger Gabteni (ed.), Advanced Perspectives and Trends in Digital Transformation of Firms, Networks, and Society, chapter 0, pages 395-399, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-80692-6_31
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80692-6_31
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-80692-6_31. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.