Characterisation of agencies in this system should also include: values, operating principles, legitimacy and operational spaces.
It highlights instead the importance of analysing values, operating principles, legitimacy and operational spaces, as well as the nature of relationships (contractual or informal).
Operational restructuring is often especially constrained by legitimacy problems (Ahmadjian and Robinson 2001; Lynn and Rao 1995).
I will know President Obama is serious about economic recovery for ordinary Americans when he ends his persecution of truth-tellers and acknowledges the damaging distance between what W. Michael Reisman calls the "myth system," an outward script designed to secure legitimacy from the public, and the "operational code," the true protocols governing any given profession.
Related, but distinct from CSR is the concept of 'social license to operate' (SLO), which is the main operational objective of CSR at community level, giving the corporate industry its share of informal legitimacy and additional operational space (Table 1).
An agency like the World Health Organisation has a unique mix of technical expertise, legitimacy in all corners of the world, and especially an operational presence on the ground in dozens of the world's poorest and neediest countries.
In addition, types 1 and 2 situations may cause constitutional level concerns about macro-effectiveness and efficiency of dominant operational preferences and the ensuing collective choice pattern, as well as on the legitimacy and lawfulness of these (especially related to single actor legal and/or economic dominance as an issue of distributive justice).
Pragmatically speaking, it's quixotic to hope that the myth system will ever conform to the operational code in every respect--and, I would argue, equally so to hope that legitimacy can be sustained when the two diverge as dramatically as they do now.
The aspects governing the operational feasibility and sustainability of our approach and proposed framework were analyzed using salience, reliability and legitimacy parameters as identified by Danielsen et al. [15].
They include structure, procedures, finance and legitimacy at system and institutional level as well as the professional self-interest at the operational level.
