合法性的寻求——一个美国大学跨学科组织的成长逻辑

The dilemma of survival and development caused by the squeeze of traditional academic organizations is almost a common problem faced by the development of interdisciplinary organization in universities around the world. Based on Burton Clark's triangular coordination theory, a case study of Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan shows that, the development logic of this interdisciplinary organization is embodied in its common pursuit of national and international legitimacy, market and the third sector legitimacy, and academic legitimacy. Its pursuit of national and international legitimacy is mainly based on its research orientation of national public interests and extensive transnational academic cooperation, the legitimacy of the market and the third sector is mainly obtained by meeting the research requirements of relevant enterprises and private foundations, and the pursuit of academic legitimacy mainly depends on the integration of multi-disciplinary authority of experts and the pro