name EWB- Ingenieros sin Fronteras has been adopted by organizations in various countries. They are organizations that promote collaborative work between engineer's actors and other community and government stakeholders in order to support the solution of problems in vulnerable communities. In Colombia, since 2006 is given to the home country organization called Ingenieros sin Fronteras Colombia (ISFCOL) led by two universities: Corporacion Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto) and the Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes). The organization was created in a joint effort by a group of professors from both institutions in seeking to create spaces that allow, from academia, to develop initiatives for solutions to problems affecting Colombian communities within the framework of an institutional arrangement and an informal working practice. The main proposal is centered upon the creation of autonomous spaces through which students and professionals from the two universities develop roles that allow them to be apply in real Colombian situations. Likewise, the work is developed with the community, hence its local sense and historical knowledge is the guiding principle in the development of any of the initiatives. Since its establishment, ISFCOL has won a place for participation in various activities of innovation, engineering and social spaces within the respective universities. It is important to add that the initial design was based on the basic concepts proposed by Stafford Beer in the Viable System Model. Thanks to a study conducted in 2013 at Universidad de los Andes entitled Diagnosing the organizational culture as a tool for the analysis of the mission of an organization with social order it was possible to illustrate in detail the evolution of ISFCOL since its conception to its present structure by giving a clear picture about how its own organization with a social purpose and academic characteristics have had on the fulfillment of its mission and therefore its dynamic structure Based on this study and the results it yields, the question of research that arises is addressed in this article, How has ISFCOL's environment affected its legitimacy and therefore its performance and survival? According to what has been previously mentioned, this article analyzes the case of ISFCOL, as an organization that has been structured and molded over time from a logic that does not follow the cost-benefit guidance and therefore makes evident the effects that