Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2022, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (5): 57-66.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2022.05.008

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How Can Bureaucratic Organizations Respond to Complex Social Needs? Organizational Form Innovation in Co-construction, Co-governance and Sharing of G Province

SONG Kaiye1,2   

  1. (1. School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; 2. School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University, Qingdao 266000, China)
  • Revised:2021-04-20 Accepted:2021-04-20 Published:2022-10-03
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Abstract: In the context of the modernization and transformation of national governance, how governmental bureaucratic organizations respond to increasingly diverse and complex social needs has become an important topic related to national governance. As an important reform and innovation in response to complex social demands, “co-construction, co-governance and sharing” reflects the innovative logic of the current governmental bureaucracy oriented towards “society”, and helps to analyze the institutional support, constraints and internal mechanism that bureaucratic organizations may face when responding to complex social demands. It is found that, relying on the long-term historical model, the “integrated” bureaucratic organizations respond to the complex social needs effectively through the innovation of operation modes, but in practice the multiple substitution logic restricts the effectiveness of modern governance tasks. In order to match the social environment of the same period, the bureaucratic organizations develop a new organizational mechanism in the process of governance, namely, “interstitial organization”. As a unique new organizational form of bureaucratic organizations and social interaction, it is characterized by “discontinuous structure”, “autonomous division of labor” and “local operation”. It changes the typical characteristics of bureaucratic organizations, thus alleviating the vulnerability to the environment and playing an important role in the transformation of national governance.

Key words: interstitial bureaucracy; bureaucratic organization; social demand; national governance

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