本项目基于利益相关者视角对我国商会合法性和合法化问题展开研究。组织合法性和商会均是近二十年国际管理学界兴起的前沿研究领域，但现有文献中“合法性”和“商会”的研究鲜有“交集”。我国商会几乎无一例外地面临合法性困境，研究如何战略性地走出困境以充分发挥商会的作用，具有重要的研究价值。本项目将结合运用理论建模、多案例分析、访谈调查和计量分析等研究方法，通过严谨的理论分析和详实的实证检验，从政府合法性、产业（企业）合法性和社会合法性三个新维度，开发一套指标体系和模型测度我国商会合法性困境程度，剖析商会构建合法性的作用机理和合法化战略，并揭示商会合法化战略的整合核心，试图构建全面、系统的商会合法性和合法化研究体系。本项目将在理论上拓展商会研究的内涵与视角，推动理论创新发展；在实践中为推动转型中的商会制度改革，解决长期困扰我国商会的合法性问题，以充分发挥商会在经济社会发展中的重要功能提供理论和经验支持。

The project studies on the legitimacy dilemma and legitimation strategy of chamber of commerce based on stakeholder perspective. Both organization legitimacy and chamber of commerce have been the frontiers of management research area in the last twenty years. However, the existing literatures seldom had intersection between legitimacy research and chamber of commerce’s research. Almost all chamber of commerces in China face with legitimacy dilemma. So, it has important theoretical and realistic significance to study on how to get out of dilemma strategically in order to bring chamber of commerce’s functions into full play in China. The project will combine with the use of several research methods including the theoretical modeling, multiple cases analysis, interview, investigation, and econometric analysis. Based on three new dimensionalities involving government legitimacy, industry(firm) legitimacy and society legitimacy, the project will develop an indicator system and model to measure the dilemma extent of chamber of commerce in China, analyse the chamber of commerce’s mechanism and strategies of constructing legitimacy, reveal the integration core of the chamber of commerce’s legitimation strategies by rigorous theoretical analysis and detailed empirical test. We try to construct comprehensively the research system of chamber of commerce’s legitimacy and legitimation. We expect that the project will enpand the research connotation and perspective, develop the theory of chamber of commerce. Also, we expect the the study will provide the theoretical and empirical support for advancing the chamber of commerce’s system reform, solving the legitimacy problem of perplexing chamber of ceommerce for a long time, in order to give full play to the role of chamber of commerce.