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The study aims to explore how symbolic actions and myth-making influence perceptions of organizational events.

Politics, Symbolic Action and Myth Making in Pursuit of Legitimacy

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Illustrates how symbolic actions shape organizational legitimacy via micro-political behavior.

The study aims to explore how symbolic actions and myth-making influence perceptions of organizational events.
Analyzed micropolitical behavior of four individuals in a specific project.
Examined how symbolic actions and information control shaped group dynamics.
Investigated the creation of a façade of minimization of project risks.
Demonstrated that symbolic actions influenced perceptions of the project's legitimacy.
Revealed that decisions perceived as irrational had politically motivated, rational justifications.
Illustrated how a small group manipulated understandings of complex events.

Andrew D. Brown (1994) studied this question.

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