eprintid: 10161621
rev_number: 8
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datestamp: 2022-12-12 10:28:23
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creators_name: Li, X
creators_name: Morris, P
title: Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
keywords: Global educational governance, assessment empire, PISA for development, organisational legitimacy, legitimation strategies
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: This paper identifies and analyses the legitimation strategies used by the OECD as it expanded its role in global educational governance. Whilst the literature recognises the mainly discursive sources of legitimacy which the OECD derives from its testing regime, especially PISA, what remains unexplored is how exactly it has created the legitimacy to monitor SDG 4–an arena where it has not been previously involved. Drawing on Suchman’s framework for analysing organisational legitimacy, we identify six strategies. We show how these: were used to promote the OECD’s pragmatic, moral, and cognitive legitimacy; progressed over time from low-key passive conformity to active manipulation; and, operated on both an episodic and a continual basis.
date: 2022-11-22
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2022.2142038
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1993921
doi: 10.1080/03057925.2022.2142038
lyricists_name: Morris, Paul
lyricists_id: PMORR36
actors_name: Allington-Smith, Dominic
actors_id: DAALL44
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
issn: 0305-7925
citation:        Li, X;    Morris, P;      (2022)    Generating and managing legitimacy: how the OECD established its role in monitoring sustainable development goal 4.                   Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education        10.1080/03057925.2022.2142038 <https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2022.2142038>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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