"external legitimacy" is correct and usable in written English and can be used to refer to a situation where a governing body or organization is seen as having an accepted right to exercise control or authority in a certain area.
For example: "The government needs to work on gaining external legitimacy in order to be seen as more reliable and respected."
Organisational practices designed to secure external legitimacy are not however always symbolic and decoupled from internal operations.
I argue that the currently dominant corporate governance theory ignores a specific corporate architecture that provided internal and external legitimacy to the modern public corporation by embedding a set of trade-offs between constituent groups and cementing those trade-offs into a broader institutional setting.
It is worthwhile drawing a distinction here between internal legitimacy and external legitimacy (Buchanan 2004).
This leads to the question about what the consequences are if the ELSA network fails to establish itself as an institution with external legitimacy.
Their research on volunteer organizations in Toronto (1970 1980) demonstrates that most internal changes are unrelated to death rates except for a change in CEO, whereas external legitimacy significantly depresses mortality rates.
We suggest there is possible tension as scholars endeavour to attain internal legitimacy and respond to calls to adapt theories to explain Asia-specific phenomena or develop new models and theories relevant to the Asian context (Tsui, 2006) while at the same time needing to meet an equally pressing requirement of external legitimacy by adopting norms or assumptions around academic rigor.
"That gives them international legitimacy".
Which in parallel might be a precondition for external 'scenario legitimacy'.
We consider them threats to the fundamental norms of academia and to the delicate balance that maintains the external and internal legitimacy and credibility of scholarship produced, and teaching conducted, within academia.
The notion of reference discussed by Bruno Latour is introduced to support a case for the function of reference in writing sound as an inclusive, necessary gesture: it carries meaning and does not call for external frameworks of legitimacy.
The Saudi leaders' dedication to eliminating the clerical regime in Tehran is underestimated and the tangled worries in Riyadh about the external threat, the legitimacy of their own rule, and the challenge from the Salafists they cannot control are not the subject of any comprehensive American policy.
