Reputation and legitimacy: Key factors for Higher Education Institutions’ sustained competitive advantage

Globalization, rankings, and the decrease of public funding have created a highly competitive environment for public universities. Internal and external stakeholders increasingly demand better results in term of research, teaching, knowledge transfer, employability, and community outreach. In this n...

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Autores: Miotto, Giorgia, Del-Castillo-Feito, Cristina, Blanco-González, Alicia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Repositorio:BURJC-Digital. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Palabra clave:Reputation
Legitimacy
Sustainable competitive advantage
Higher education
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title Reputation and legitimacy: Key factors for Higher Education Institutions’ sustained competitive advantage
spellingShingle Reputation and legitimacy: Key factors for Higher Education Institutions’ sustained competitive advantage
Miotto, Giorgia
Reputation
Legitimacy
Sustainable competitive advantage
Higher education
title_short Reputation and legitimacy: Key factors for Higher Education Institutions’ sustained competitive advantage
title_full Reputation and legitimacy: Key factors for Higher Education Institutions’ sustained competitive advantage
title_fullStr Reputation and legitimacy: Key factors for Higher Education Institutions’ sustained competitive advantage
title_full_unstemmed Reputation and legitimacy: Key factors for Higher Education Institutions’ sustained competitive advantage
title_sort Reputation and legitimacy: Key factors for Higher Education Institutions’ sustained competitive advantage
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Miotto, Giorgia
Del-Castillo-Feito, Cristina
Blanco-González, Alicia
author Miotto, Giorgia
author_facet Miotto, Giorgia
Del-Castillo-Feito, Cristina
Blanco-González, Alicia
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Blanco-González, Alicia
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Reputation
Legitimacy
Sustainable competitive advantage
Higher education
topic Reputation
Legitimacy
Sustainable competitive advantage
Higher education
description Globalization, rankings, and the decrease of public funding have created a highly competitive environment for public universities. Internal and external stakeholders increasingly demand better results in term of research, teaching, knowledge transfer, employability, and community outreach. In this new landscape, intangible assets such as reputation and legitimacy are key factors for gaining a sustained competitive advantage. And yet, here remains a lack of clarity about these variables and their relationships. This research aims to increase our understanding of the field by measuring how reputation, by way of its influence on legitimacy, can create a sustained competitive advantage for public universities. We measure reputation and legitimacy by surveying 509 professors from 47 different Spanish universities, considering pragmatic, moral and cognitive legitimacy types and analyze reputation in terms of performance, innovation, citizenship, services, governance, and workplace climate. According to faculty members, a university’s reputation has a significative and positive effect on its legitimacy.
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