This book is an investigation of the cultural work involved in the social process of achieving
and maintaining legitimacy as a not-for-profit arts or media organization in the twenty-first
century. Within this work Larsen advances an approach to studying organizational legitimacy
emanating from within cultural sociology. More specifically he analyzes the legitimation work
done in public service broadcasters in the Scandinavian countries of Norway Sweden and
Denmark the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
