📣 Call for Papers | 4th International Workshop on Organizational Legitimacy
📆 | 📍 Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence (France)
We are delighted to announce the 4th International Workshop on Organizational Legitimacy, themed: Advancing Legitimacy Frontiers: New Perspectives and Challenges
Building on the success of the previous editions at the University of Lausanne (2023), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2024), and EMLYON (2025), this workshop continues to provide an international forum for advancing legitimacy research in management and organization studies.
The workshop aims to:
- Advance state-of-the-art legitimacy research
- Provide developmental feedback on research-in-progress
- Foster collaboration and intellectual exchange among scholars
🎯 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
· Cross-border and transnational legitimation processes
· Temporal dynamics of legitimacy judgment formation and change
· Legitimacy in digital and AI-driven organizational contexts
· Legitimacy and organizational responses to grand challenges
· Novel approaches to measuring and operationalizing legitimacy
· Legitimacy at the intersection of multiple institutional logics
· Inclusive, minority, and migrant entrepreneurship and legitimacy
· States of legitimacy along the legitimacy–illegitimacy continuum
👩🎓 Who should apply?
Scholars at all career stages are welcome. Early-career researchers (PhD students, postdocs, assistant professors) are especially encouraged to submit.
📝 Submission Guidelines
📄 Extended abstract (up to 1,000 words, excluding references)
📅 Submission deadline: 15th February 2026
📨 Submit to: legitimacyaix@gmail.com
📬 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2026
🔗 More information:
🌐 https://legitimacy-research.org/workshop-aix/
🏛️ Workshop Details
📍 Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
🆓 Registration fee (meals and a gala dinner included): PhD students: €80 / Faculty (early bird): €150 / Faculty (regular): €200
👥 Limited to 50 participants
🤝 Participating Experts include:
Alex Bitektine, Concordia University, Canada
Björn Claes, The Open University, United Kingdom
Patrick Haack, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Laura Illia, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Anna Jasienko, University of St Gallen, Switzerland
Gerardo Patriotta, Bath School of Management, Bath, United Kingdom
Eric Schoon, The Ohio State University, USA
Sonia S. Siraz, emlyon business school, Lyon, France
Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria, USA
Eero Vaara, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
The experts will give presentations, lead developmental roundtables, and facilitate interactive discussions.
🙏 We warmly thank FEG, IAE, and CERGAM for their support.
📢 Please feel free to share this call with colleagues interested in legitimacy research.
We look forward to welcoming you to Aix-en-Provence in June 2026!
The Organization's team:
· Bénédicte ALDEBERT (Professor in entrepreneurship, Aix-Marseille University, within the Faculty of Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille, France)
· Daisy BERTRAND (Research Engineer at CERGAM, Aix-Marseille, France)
· Ramzi BENAMARA (PhD student at Aix-Marseille University, within the Faculty of Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille, France)
· Ali GHODS (Associate Professor in entrepreneurship IAE Aix-Marseille Université, France)
· Amandine MAUS (Associate Professor in entrepreneurship, Aix-Marseille University, within the Faculty of Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille, France)
· Antonin RICARD (Dean of IAE Aix-Marseille University, Aix-Marseille, France)
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Patrick Haack
University of Lausanne
Lausanne
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