How competitive is government purchase of social work service? An empirical study of three cities in Guangdong Province, China

He, Zhifeng; Liu, Xiaohe; Chang, Ying-Hsu

doi:10.1080/02185385.2022.2040581

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“…Government purchase of public services, supported by public funds, contributes to balancing the demand and supply of public services, reducing economic fluctuations, and maintaining social equity and justice (He et al, 2023). It should also be linked to the reform of government institutions.…”

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Assessing the impact of pure market, government, and social organization interaction on the effectiveness of public service procurement

Li,

Lv,

Liu

2023

Manage Decis Econ

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This study employs qualitative comparative analysis to investigate the effects of different interaction modes, namely, functional substitution and strategic cooperation, on the effectiveness of public service procurement. It reveals that the interaction between the government and social organizations in China's current public service procurement presents a composite form, combining functional substitution and strategic cooperation. Government support for social organizations plays a critical role in procurement effectiveness. The greater the government support, the higher the effectiveness of public service procurement. The study finds that “pure market” and “pure competition” do not necessarily contribute positively to the effectiveness of public service procurement.

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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Assessing the impact of pure market, government, and social organization interaction on the effectiveness of public service procurement

Li,

Lv,

Liu

2023

Manage Decis Econ

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“…Current government policies emphasize collaboration and “embeddedness,” particularly between health and social care services ( 33 ). Theoretically, the two should be synergistic relationships that are mutually beneficial ( 34–36 ), but in practice, the relationship between the two is not very harmonious ( 37–39 ), and there are “alienated cooperation,” “organizational convergence” and “cooperation involution” in the process of interaction between “government and society.” “The root cause of this is the failure of government-society interaction” ( 40 ). Due to their own lack of capacity and the government’s imperfect policy support system, social organizations face the dilemma of over-reliance on the government’s unevenness and insufficient resources for sustainable development ( 41 ), and the formal care system is severely undersupplied and fragmented ( 42 ).…”

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Analysis of the factors influencing the effectiveness of local government’s purchase of older adults care services – a grounded theory study based on typical cases

Liu

2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundPopulation aging is a basic national condition in China at present and for a long time to come, forcing the country to accelerate the pace of building its public older adults care system. The government’s purchase of older adults care services has become an effective way to make up for the lack of the family’s older adults care function, to which the Chinese government attaches particular importance. The article selects 11 typical cases from the excellent case base released by the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs officials in 2022 to study the influencing factors of the effect of local government purchase of older adults care service supply.MethodsNVivo data analysis tools have significant advantages in retrieving, analyzing and coding data more efficiently and accurately, which helps to construct theoretical propositions and formulate hypotheses to be tested in qualitative research. The study intends to adopt the grounded theory approach to analyze the text with the help of NVivo12 software, to condense the practice mechanism of local governments’ purchasing of older adults care services and to construct a relational model.ResultsTaking “the supply effect of local government purchasing older adults services” as the main logic line, the article summarizes the four main influencing factors of the supply effect of government purchasing older adults services: the real demand of the society, the government’s power and responsibility system, the government’s governance ability, and the society’s acceptance ability.ConclusionThe sense of gain, happiness and security of the older adults group is the starting point and landing point of the older adults service policy formulation and implementation. Policy guidance and decision-making have an important impact on the quality of the supply of older adults care services and the development of the older adults care services industry. Clarifying the direction of policy guidance, reflecting the comprehensive efficiency of government governance and utilizing the professional advantages of social forces, is the key to improving the effectiveness of the government’s purchase of older adults care services.

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Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners

Mok,

Wen

2023

Social Policy and Society

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In the last two decades, the Chinese government has made serious attempts to enhance social provision by contracting out social services. Empirical evidence suggests that openness and flexibility of resource allocation gradually decrease from Guangzhou in southern China to Beijing in northern China, amongst China’s three first-tier cities. This study further reveals that state–non-governmental organisation (NGO) relations vary not only across geographical locations but also amongst service sectors governed by government departments and mass organisations. The varied state–NGO relations across geographical locations and service sectors manifest the complexity of the state–NGO collaboration under China’s fragmented authoritarian governance system. Different local circumstances and diverse considerations of local officials involving vertical and horizontal lines of authority accounted for the variations and complexity from the eyes of NGO practitioners.

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How competitive is government purchase of social work service? An empirical study of three cities in Guangdong Province, China

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Assessing the impact of pure market, government, and social organization interaction on the effectiveness of public service procurement

Assessing the impact of pure market, government, and social organization interaction on the effectiveness of public service procurement

Analysis of the factors influencing the effectiveness of local government’s purchase of older adults care services – a grounded theory study based on typical cases

Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners

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