Legitimization of cross-sector partnerships: Actor strategies within the institutional complexity of state, economy, and civil society

跨部门伙伴关系的合法化：国家、经济和公民社会制度复杂性中的行为者策略

• 批准号: 394824300
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Markus Göbel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur für BWL, insbesondere Public Management
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/394824300?language=en
• 关键词: Legitimization; cross; sector; partnerships; Actor

Cross-sector partnerships are collaborative arrangements in which actors from different sectors of society (state, economy, civil society) share resources and information in order to work on societal problems with a common goal. A central driver of the promotion of these forms of governance is the assumption that partners from different sectoral backgrounds dispose of diverse resources and capabilities and that societal problems are solved more effectively if these complementarities are used with the goal of economic, social, and ecological added value.In current research, a structural perspective predominates on the conditions of formation and success as well as on the structure and impact of cross-sector partnerships. An interactionist perspective on the micro level of individual actors that cooperate in partnerships, however, is not well developed yet. These actors are not passive recipients of different sectoral frameworks and normative structures of state, economy, and civil society, but they can actively and strategically engage with these frameworks to secure legitimacy. However, the legitimization of cross-sector partnerships should be subjected to further research as their success is not only dependent on their functional efficiency but also on their societal legitimacy though being a diffuse target for the attribution of legitimacy because of their institutional ambiguity.Our research project contributes to theoretically and empirically record the level of individual action in cross-sector partnerships and to explore the interrelations with superordinate organizational and sectoral contexts. We focus on the following research questions:1) How are sectoral logics of state, economy, and civil society as well as organizational logics of public, private, and nonprofit organizations manifested in identity claims and interpretation patterns of actors who cooperate in cross-sector partnerships?2) What action strategies do actors use to address the potentially conflicting logics of their sectors and organizations?3) How do these action strategies affect the development and maintenance of internal and external legitimacy of the partnership; and what are the dynamic interactions between internal and external legitimacy?The theoretical background of this project is the concept of institutional logics, which has recently been developed within sociological institutionalism. The research project is based on process-tracing and analyzes tri-sectoral partnerships within the scope of three in-depth case studies.

跨部门伙伴关系是一种合作安排，社会不同部门(国家、经济、民间社会)的行为者共享资源和信息，以便为共同目标解决社会问题。促进这些治理形式的一个核心驱动力是这样一种假设，即来自不同部门背景的伙伴处理不同的资源和能力，如果以经济、社会和生态附加值为目标利用这些互补性，社会问题就能得到更有效的解决。在目前的研究中，结构性观点主要关注跨部门伙伴关系的形成和成功条件以及结构和影响。然而，关于在伙伴关系中合作的单个行为者的微观层面的互动主义观点还没有很好地发展。这些行为者不是国家、经济和民间社会不同部门框架和规范结构的被动接受者，但它们可以积极和战略性地参与这些框架，以确保合法性。然而，跨部门伙伴关系的合法化应进一步研究，因为它们的成功不仅取决于它们的职能效率，而且还取决于它们的社会合法性，尽管由于它们的体制含糊不清，它们是合法性分配的分散目标。我们的研究项目有助于从理论和经验上记录跨部门伙伴关系中个人行动的水平，并探索与上级组织和部门背景的相互关系。我们集中于以下研究问题：1)国家、经济和公民社会的部门逻辑以及公共、私人和非营利组织的组织逻辑是如何在跨部门伙伴关系中合作的参与者的身份主张和解释模式中表现出来的？2)行为者使用什么行动策略来解决其部门和组织的潜在冲突逻辑？3)这些行动战略如何影响伙伴关系的内部和外部合法性的发展和维持；内部和外部合法性之间的动态相互作用？本项目的理论背景是制度逻辑的概念，它是最近在社会学制度主义中发展起来的。该研究项目以进程跟踪为基础，分析了三个深入案例研究范围内的三部门伙伴关系。

项目成果

Technology Transfer Through Intersectoral Partnerships: The Case of Digitalization in the German Health Sector

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61477-5_8
• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Markus Göbel;H. Gräfen;C. Schultz

Cross‐sector partnerships: Mapping the field and advancing an institutional approach

• DOI: 10.1111/ijmr.12283
• 发表时间: 2021-12
• 期刊: International Journal of Management Reviews
• 影响因子: 8.1
• 作者: Rick Vogel;Markus Göbel;Marit Grewe‐Salfeld;Barbara Herbert;Yuka Matsuo;Christiana Weber