Original
Building collaborative governance from scratch: the significance of recalibration and reaffirmation in boundary work
Abstract
This paper examines the dynamics of actors’ boundary work in collaborative governance. While widely studied, how actors navigate collaborative governance from its inception has been underexplored. Drawing on a longitudinal ethnographic study tracing actors’ struggles over boundaries in response to a collaboration mandate, this paper demonstrates (1) how the design (configurational boundary work) of collaborative governance inadvertently and sometimes adversely affects the collaboration; (2) how collaborative governance remains ‘under construction’ as actors switch between competitive and collaborative boundary work; and (3) how actors continually engage in ‘recalibration’ and ‘reaffirmation’ of boundary work in response to changing circumstances, tasks, and actors.
中文
从零开始构建协作治理：边界工作中重新校准与再确认的意义
摘要
本文考察协作治理中行动者边界工作的动态。尽管该领域已被广泛研究，但行动者如何从协作治理启动之初对其进行驾驭仍缺乏充分探讨。基于一项纵向民族志研究，该研究追踪行动者在回应一项协作授权时围绕边界的争夺，本文表明：（1）协作治理的设计（配置性边界工作）如何无意间、有时甚至不利地影响协作；（2）当行动者在竞争性边界工作与协作性边界工作之间切换时，协作治理如何始终处于“建设中”；（3）行动者如何针对不断变化的情境、任务和行动者，持续进行边界工作的“重新校准”与“再确认”。
关键词
协作治理、边界工作、重新校准、再确认、纵向民族志、协作授权、竞争性边界工作、协作性边界工作