Structured Constraints,Strategic Cooperation and External Embedded Suspension:Tracking the Survival Process of A Rural Social Work Organization
While the quantity of purchasing social services for grassroots governance has increased dramatically,the effectiveness of social work organizations in promoting grassroots governance innovation is not obvious.Based on the analytical framework of"Structure-Process-Function",this paper examines the practice process of Q-organizations and explores the logic and mechanism of the"embedded suspension"pattern of social work organizations in grassroots governance.The study finds that in the government purchase of services,social work organizations face structured constraints such as resource dependence on higher levels of government,power structure centered on township government,upward accountability structure,competition among grassroots organizations,and control structure in vertical relationships.Under structured constraints,social work organizations are in a weak position in the interaction of multiple resources,power and professional interactions with various governance subjects,while social work organizations constantly produce optimal survival action strategies to adapt to the administrative-professional double-objective game,which manifests itself in the following ways:from"Administrative Absorption and Voluntary Dependence"to"Matter Transfer and Organizational Alliance"and to"Control and Apportionment"and then to"Survival in Seams".The process goes from above"interactive absorption"expectation to the choices of"integrated subsidiary",and ultimately results in"embedded failure".As a result,the practice of social work organizations presents an internalized pattern of"disembedded identity,dislocated functional core,and generalized professional services",and faces an externally embedded dilemma of being detached from the governance structure and materialized in the governance field.
social workembedded developmentrural governancesocial work organizationexternal embedded suspension
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