Toward a Theory of Social Judgments of Organizations: The Case of Legitimacy, Reputation, and Status
从评价者视角出发，将合法性、声誉和地位视为三种不同的社会判断，探讨在有限理性条件下评价者如何形成这些判断，以及认知和社会因素如何影响这一过程。
The proposed theory extends research on cognitive and sociopolitical legitimacy, reputation, and status by advancing an evaluator's perspective on these concepts as forms of social judgment, each addressing a different evaluator's question about the organization. I describe how evaluators make their social judgments under conditions of bounded rationality and how cognitive and social factors influence this process. The proposed process model of social judgment formation highlights the complex and nondeterministic nature of this process.