Identification · The influence map · Element

The legitimacy

The basis of the stakeholder’s claim on the organisation.

The part

What it is

Legitimacy comes from contract, from law, from being affected by decisions, or from a moral claim. All four are real and they differ in how they are usually treated.

Assessing legitimacy separately from power is what prevents the list collapsing into a ranking of who can cause trouble.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.