The Not So Clear-Cut Nature of Organizational Legitimating Mechanisms in the Canadian Forest Sector
通过定性方法和话语分析，研究了加拿大林业部门如何混合使用实质性和象征性手段管理合法性，揭示了“绿色”合法化的模糊性和部分话语的表面性。
The Canadian forest sector provides a rich contextual basis for examining organizational legitimacy and legitimating mechanisms. The author used qualitative methods and discourse analysis to explore how the Canadian forest sector exhibits a hybrid mix of substantive and symbolic management of legitimacy and of procedural and symbolic processes of legitimation. Findings support the mystifying nature of “green” legitimation and the superficial and mystifying nature of some of the discourse that is being used in this sector. In some cases, language is being used to attempt to change definitions of social legitimacy to enhance a record of sustainable forest management practice.