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| The functional failure of the interdisciplinary field and its governance |
| ZHANG Xinpei |
| （Office of Strategy Planning, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China） |
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Abstract This study uses a theoretical perspective of the field to study the interdisciplinarity, and proposes that the interdisciplinary field is a structural space of nested ternary relationship of "knowledge production organization construction actor participation". This study takes A University which is China′s worldclass university in construction as a typical case, and conducts an indepth analysis of the phenomena and reasons of the failure of the innovation function, integration function and incentive function in the interdisciplinary field. In order to cope with the functional failure of the interdisciplinary field and promote the dynamic balance between the interdisciplinary field and the needs of external systems, the university governance mechanism can be improved from two aspects of reshaping ideas and model reform. In terms of reshaping ideas, Chinese universities should change their disciplinary concepts from disciplinary awareness to problem awareness; reshape the pursuit of value from formal cross to crossinnovation; broaden the strategic pattern from based on disciplines only to based on threedimensional coordinates of endogenous resources, institutional environments and external industries. In terms of model reform, Chinese universities can insist on taking innovation as the foundation, and deeply embed the interdisciplinarity in the university innovation system; adhere to the problemoriented approach, and build an outcomeoriented interdisciplinary system and mechanism; adhere to taking empowerment as the core, and help teachers grow and become talents in the field transformation.
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