As a new exploration in the integration of industry and education for vocational education, the development of municipal-level industry-education consortiums is directly influenced by the willingness, enthusiasm, and initiative of various stakeholders to participate. By applying the stakeholder theory, stakeholders in municipal-level industry-education consortiums are categorized into three types: core stakeholders, close stakeholders, and authoritative stakeholders. Research shows that among these three types of stakeholders, there exist cooperation divergences such as difficulty in unifying cognition caused by misaligned demands, difficulty in sustaining cooperation caused by misaligned costs, and difficulty in achieving collaboration caused by misaligned rights and responsibilities. By fostering a cooperative environment, clarifying cooperative value, coordinating cooperative methods, and incentivizing cooperative outcomes, a sound and long-term cooperation mechanism for stakeholders can be established, thereby promoting the municipal-level industry-education consortiums in vocational education to pursue a path of connotative development.

Lan Gang. Study on the Construction Logic of Municipal-Level Industry-Education Consortiums in Vocational Education from the Perspective of Stakeholder Theory. Frontiers in Educational Research (2026), Vol. 9, Issue 1: 8-16. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2026.090102.

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