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| Action strategies of mixed ownership in vocational colleges: a multiplecase study from the perspective of legitimacy |
| HE Yiqing,LIU Na,PAN Haisheng |
| (School of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China) |
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Abstract Based on the theory of new institutionalism in organizational sociology, from the perspective of legitimacy, the study discusses the legitimacy acquisition strategies and types in the running process of mixed ownership in four vocational colleges by using the multiplecase study, and identifies the relationship between the mixed ownership stage, the strategies of legitimacy acquisition and the types of legitimacy acquisition by content analysis. Foundings are that the alliance strategies of legitimacy acquisition of mixed ownership in vocational colleges mainly include negotiating, coordinating interests, building and leveraging social networks; analytical strategies mainly include identifying details, formulating standards, and constructing the identity and governance system; cultural strategies mainly include publicity and embedding. In the period of creation, mixedownership vocational colleges mainly adopt analytical strategies and acquire the normative legitimacy type. In the development period, cultural strategies are increased significantly, and the proportion of these three strategies is relatively balanced, focusing on the legitimacy acquisition of regulation and cultural cognition types. The regulation legitimacy is mainly acquired by alliance strategies, the normative legitimacy by analytical strategies and alliance strategies, and the cultural cognition legitimacy by cultural strategies. Therefore, vocational colleges should try to define different stages of development and choose corresponding action strategies according to their stages in the process of exploring mixed ownership.
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2020, Vol. 14 
