#FeesMustFall# movement in the post-apartheid era: legitimacy battle for leaders
du Plessis, Linda and Bui, Hong T. M. (2023) #FeesMustFall# movement in the post-apartheid era: legitimacy battle for leaders. Journal of Organizational Change Management. ISSN ISSN: 0953-4814
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Abstract
Purpose
Underpinned by institutional legitimacy, this study explores how South African public university senior managers struggled to maintain legitimacy during an unplanned radical change process.
Design/methodology/approach
Gioia's grounded theory analysis approach is employed to analyse interviews with 37 senior managers of public-funded universities in South Africa.
Findings
This study's findings show that a change without proper planning severely damages institutions in all aspects of leadership's normative, empirical, moral and pragmatic legitimacy.
Research limitations/implications
This study contributes to the literature on legitimacy by illustrating the importance of institutional legitimacy during unplanned social change and the factors that negate legitimacy.
Originality/value
Though other legitimacy models have been well developed, they do not apply to such unplanned social change in organisations. This study shows a different angle of the legitimacy crisis under unplanned social change conditions.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-11-2022-0338 | ||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Legitimacy, unplanned change, crisis, #FeesMustFall#, Social movement, Senior managers | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH17 - business and management > CAH17-01 - business and management > CAH17-01-04 - management studies | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > Birmingham City Business School | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Hong Bui | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2023 11:01 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2023 12:59 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14607 |
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