Combined Effects: The Influence of Organizational Form and Structural Characteristics on Contract Performance in Mixed Sector Markets

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• 作者：…
• 刊名：Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：27
• 期：4
• 页码：1781-1808
• 全文大小：499 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences
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• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7888
• 卷排序：27

文摘

Social service contracting to nongovernmental organizations is popular form of privatization across the world. Although nonprofits are preferable social service providers for legal and normative reasons, governments in the United States increasingly rely on for-profit organizations to deliver social services. This trend warrants further exploration about whether nonprofits or for-profits perform according to theoretical expectations when they exist in the same market. This study employs qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to examine how sector-public, nonprofit, and for-profit-combines with structural variables to produce acceptable contract performance in juvenile justice programs. QCA is a discovery-oriented research tool that determines whether combinations of variables within cases produce a specific outcome and whether those combinations are consistent across cases. I find sector is not a necessary or sufficient predictor of acceptable performance on its own. Rather it combines with market factors to lead to acceptable contract performance. Combinations vary by sector, indicating that sectors behave differently in similar circumstances. The primary theoretical contribution of this paper is to provide a nuanced account of contract performance in mixed sector markets.KeywordsPrivatizationMixed sector marketsContract performanceQualitative comparative analysis