The Legitimacy Lie as Dark Institutional Work: Rhetoric and Reality in India's Platform Economy
Published online on March 10, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Management Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
For new ventures in contested fields, securing legitimacy is a paramount challenge. In the platform economy, firms often enter with a potent entrepreneurship rhetoric, but as they face contestation over their labor and regulatory practices, this rhetoric ...
For new ventures in contested fields, securing legitimacy is a paramount challenge. In the platform economy, firms often enter with a potent entrepreneurship rhetoric, but as they face contestation over their labor and regulatory practices, this rhetoric ...