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Lam, Wai-Fung; Perry, James L.

doi:10.1023/a:1008991306520

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“…During the colonial period of Hong Kong, the limited capacity of the colonial autocratic state necessitated their engagement of nonprofits in making social policies and delivering social services on account of the historical role of local Chinese civic organizations and nonprofits set up by church organizations, missionaries and international nonprofits in pioneering large-scale charitable work and the networks formed among them (Lam and Perry, 2000;Lee, 2005Lee, , 2012. The state became the main financer of health care, public housing, education and social services in the 1970s and 1980s (Lee, 2005;Tang, 1998).…”

Section: Meta-governance Of Social Service Provision In Hong Kongmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I consider the corporatist social service provision system in Hong Kong a prime example to study this research question. Hong Kong had a long history of self-organising service delivery networks formed among civic organizations and nonprofits enabled by a corporatist regime (Lam and Perry, 2000; Lee, 2012; Schmitter, 1974). The corporatist regime was characterized by a collective planning mechanism for social services between the nonprofit sector and the colonial government.…”

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Meta-governance, uncertainty and self-organization in corporatist social service sectors: The case of Hong Kong

Wang

2023

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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This article explores the relationship between meta-governance, uncertainty and governance network responses. A social network analysis was conducted on the interlocking directorate network among nonprofits before and after a market-oriented collibration triggered by a new public management reform to the corporatist social service provision system in Hong Kong. By unpacking and showing the distinct processes of network formation in response to substantive and strategic uncertainty arising from the market-oriented collibration, the study shows that although more nonprofit actors were directly included in the formalized policy venues after the reform, the network density and clustering coefficient dropped after the reform, potentially reducing the self-coordinating capacity of the governance network. However, for some nonprofit actors, node betweenness centrality increased and node degree centrality decreased, creating an enabling condition for adaption. Points for practitioners The uncertainties in meta-governance may bring about network processes at variance with the original intentions of public meta-governors that actors with complementary resources and competences combine their efforts in the provision of services and service innovation. To manage substantive and strategic uncertainties, public meta-governors need to find ways to increase the shared understandings of social problems, enhance the clarity of policy goals, and find a balance when collaborating between collaborative and market modes of governance.

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Section: Meta-governance Of Social Service Provision In Hong Kongmentioning

confidence: 99%