In the operation of Chinese government organizations, there are a large number of inter-departmental collaborations, that is, the competent departments and cooperating departments work together to complete the tasks around a certain governance task. This paper analyzes the causes of the differences in the forms of interdepartmental collaboration, and points out the active role of the task coordinator in interdepartmental collaboration. Interdepartmental collaboration has the organizational function of breaking the fixed division of labor, condensing governance resources and releasing capacity signals. At the same time, different task attributes and their control elements shape different forms of collaboration, so the form of collaboration between departments often varies with the change of task attributes and control elements. In practice, the competent departments often actively compete for the attention of superiors through various means such as packaging collaborative tasks and central tasks, and creating public opinion atmosphere, and strengthen the overall planning of the coordinating departments with the attention of superiors. The investigation of the role differences and organizational mechanisms of different departments in the process of collaboration helps to enhance the understanding of the internal operation and logic of Chinese government organizations, and to think from multiple perspectives on how hierarchical organizations complete their tasks.

在中国政府组织运行中,存在着大量的部门间协作现象,即主责部门、配合部门围绕某项治理任务进行分工协作以共同完成任务。本文分析了部门间协作形态差异的成因,并指出任务统筹方在部门间协作中的能动角色。部门间协作具有打破固定分工、凝聚治理资源和释放能力信号的组织功能。与此同时,不同的任务属性及其附带的控制要素塑造了不同的协作形态,故而部门间协作形态往往随任务属性和控制要素的变化而不同。在实际运行中,主责部门也常常通过将协作任务与中心任务打包、制造舆论氛围等多种手段主动竞争上级注意力,并以上级注意力强化对配合部门的统筹力度。对不同部门在协作过程中角色差异及其组织机制的考察,有助于增进对中国政府组织内部运行及其逻辑的理解,并对科层组织如何完成任务进行多角度思考。