The Importance of Legitimacy
研究了组织内领导者合法性受限时如何优化结构，通过道德风险模型分析，发现委托人可能为增强合法性而采取高成本行动，并解释了拒绝高资历员工、官僚制等现象。
Within organizations, there are typically limits to leaders' legitimacy. This article explores how organizations are structured in the face of such constraints. The concept of legitimacy is formalized in the context of a single-agent moral hazard model. The principal can give the agent monetary incentives; in addition, he can give the agent an order. The agent finds it costly to disobey orders provided they are legitimate. We find that it may be optimal for the principal to take costly actions to bolster legitimacy. We argue that many organizational phenomena can be understood as attempts to bolster legitimacy. Examples include: rejection of overqualified workers, bureaucracy, merger decisions, and above-market-clearing wages. \n \n