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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) legitimation efforts in a hostile environment : the case of Portugal
| العنوان: | Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) legitimation efforts in a hostile environment : the case of Portugal |
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| المؤلفون: | Bicho, Marta, Nikolaeva, Ralitza, Lages, Carmen |
| المساهمون: | University of St Andrews.School of Management, University of St Andrews.Centre for Energy Ethics |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Hybrid organisations, Complementary and alternative medicine, Hostile environment, Legitimacy, HD28 Management. Industrial Management, R Medicine (General), DAS, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, MCC, HD28, R1 |
| الوصف: | Funding: This work was funded by National Funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under the projects: UID/ECO/00124/2013, UID/ECO/00124/2019, UIDB/00315/2020; by Social Sciences DataLab under the project: LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022209; by POR Lisboa under the projects LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-007722 and LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022209; and by POR Norte under the project: LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022209. ; This article explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) organisations’ legitimation efforts that face extra obstacles as they are subject to more than one institutional logics (hybrids) and operate in a contested organisational space (hostile environment). CAM organisations espouse the health and market logics and their practices are questioned at an institutional level. The study is conducted in Portugal, where the legalisation of CAM therapies was a contested process over 10 years. Taking an abductive approach and drawing on qualitative interviews, the authors analyse CAM managers’ efforts to legitimise their practices and build viable organisations despite hostile conditions. Contrary to prior studies of hybrid healthcare organisations, CAM organisations derive moral legitimacy from the market logic rather than the health logic. The findings show that relationships, trust-building and consumer education appear to be the primary vehicles for establishing pragmatic legitimacy. Thus, pragmatic legitimacy relies on the health logic. The market logic dominates the pursuit of moral legitimacy through financial sustainability, human capital, marketing communications and partnerships, and advocating complementarity with biomedicine. We propose a model through which organisations use pragmatic legitimacy to enhance moral legitimacy and to create recursive feedback between moral and pragmatic legitimacy on the path to cognitive legitimacy. ; Peer reviewed |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-85-14-86621-3 85-14-86621-4 |
| تدمد: | 0141-9889 |
| Relation: | Sociology of Health and Illness; 283258063; cb414289-b0b7-4f2c-81fb-7c4072dedcdf; 85148662145; Bicho , M , Nikolaeva , R & Lages , C 2023 , ' Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) legitimation efforts in a hostile environment : the case of Portugal ' , Sociology of Health and Illness , vol. 45 , no. 4 , pp. 890-913 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13625; ORCID: /0000-0002-8422-0654/work/129709211; https://hdl.handle.net/10023/27042 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.13625 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/27042 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13625 |
| Rights: | Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.1942930 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| ردمك: | 9788514866213 8514866214 |
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| تدمد: | 01419889 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.13625 |