Organizational identity and organizational legitimacy are related constructs, but comprehensive studies of the relationship have been lacking in the literature of organizational studies. This paper aims to propose a framework that includes four possible relationships between organizational legitimacy and identity.,The authors evaluate the causes of each of these relationships and an important consequence of the relationship: their influences on organizational adaptation.,With a series of propositions, the authors make a tentative, but valuable, move toward integrating two broad streams of social perspective of organizing, institutional theory and organizational identity and call for research efforts in this direction.,The paper is the first one that explores the relationship between organizational identity and organizational legitimacy in a comprehensive way.

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合法身份与可识别合法性

组织认同和组织合法性是相关的结构，但是在组织研究的文献中却缺乏对这种关系的全面研究。本文旨在提出一个框架，其中包括组织合法性和身份之间的四种可能的关系。作者评估了每种关系的原因以及这种关系的重要后果：它们对组织适应性的影响。作者做出了尝试性但有价值的努力，以整合组织，社会理论和组织认同这两种社会观点的广泛流，并呼吁朝这个方向进行研究。