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The Relationships between Government and Civil Society in Performing Public Service Hybrid Organisations: Some Insights from a Comparative Study

Cross-Sectoral Relations in the Delivery of Public Services

ISBN: 978-1-78743-172-0, eISBN: 978-1-78743-171-3

Publication date: 29 January 2018

Abstract

This work aims at investigating how different governments, and political contexts, perform public service organisations as hybrid organisations in the case of health social assistance care services. Run using qualitative methods (interviews and direct observation), it presents a descriptive comparative study upon five local PSOs, from five European countries, engaged in delivering services for people with autism. Analysing their developmental paths in the light of neo-institutional theories, the study points out that the trigger for the development of hybrid organisations lies in the users and governments have the crucial role of being the enabler of the process, within an evolving complex relationship between public sector and third sector, as well as society at large.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Although having only an author, this work is the result of the desire and way of expressing their role and functions, of dozens amongst operators, managers, users, caregivers, family members of five European countries (which at the time of the analysis were also EU countries) and would have never been possible without the help of ESF.

The author also wishes to thank the participants to the panel track ‘E107 Creating Sustainable Public Services and Public Service Organisations: New Directions for Theory and Practice’ of 2016 IRSPM Conference in Hong Kong, for the very appreciated criticisms and suggestions given after the presentation of a preliminary draft of this work.

Citation

Antonucci, G. (2018), "The Relationships between Government and Civil Society in Performing Public Service Hybrid Organisations: Some Insights from a Comparative Study", Cross-Sectoral Relations in the Delivery of Public Services (Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance, Vol. 6), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 195-213. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-663020180000006010

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