「陸委會澳門辦事處」（駐地名稱：台北經濟文化辦事處）於2011年7月19日正名並掛牌對外，是臺灣在澳門設置的官方代表機構。澳門政治態度左傾，是中國政府展現一國兩制成果的地方，透過澳門可以感受到中國對臺灣的態度，此外，因為工作因素，筆者已派駐澳門多年，能第一線觀察駐澳機構的功能角色改變。
本文架構以臺灣駐澳門機構的歷史演變為出發點，透過歷史研究法，資料整理駐澳機構在五個時期之外交事務與特殊業務上的功能，再配合訪談法，訪問當地耆老對駐澳機構功能上的認知。理論基礎部分，透過莫頓結構功能論之顯性與隱性功能觀點，根據歷史資料彙整駐澳機構所具備的顯性功能，以及根據訪談找出其具備的隱性功能；另外透過帕森思AGIL架構分析駐澳機構具備的環境適應（A, Adaptation）、目標達成（G, Goal-attainment）、整合（I, Integration）與模式維持（L, Latency），逐項針對澳門辦事處的四項結構存續需具備的功能進行分析，藉由理論框架瞭解澳門辦事處在過去如何續存，期望在2022年面臨的續存考驗之際，發現結構功能上之不合時宜之處，作為轉型的參考。
The Macao Office of Mainland Affairs Council, also known as Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Macao (TECO Macao), was renamed and officially unveiled on July 19, 2011, and it is Taiwan’s representative office in Macao. For its left-wing political ideology, Macao is where the Chinese government shows the achievements of its “one country two systems principle”. And people get to know China's attitude toward Taiwan through Macao, too. In addition, the author has worked in Macao for years and gets the first hand observation about the changes of TECO Macao’s functions and roles.
This thesis goes through TECO Macao’s historical evolution, using both the historical research method to know the functions of five different periods of time and the interview method to know if the local senior citizens are aware of TECO Macao’s functions as well. The theories applied are Robert K. Merton’s manifest functions / latent functions and Talcott Parsons’s AGIL paradigm, which stands for Adaptation, Goal-attainment, Integration and Latency. It is hoped that this case study would serve as a reference for TECO Macao’s transformation when needed.
