The Correlation between Social Capital and Partnership in the Social Welfare Service.

• Main Authors: Chuang, Li-hsin, 莊俐昕
• Other Authors: Chan, Yi-chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92540908503386417697

博士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 101 === Partnership is one of important models of local governance, and has been seen as a ‘panacea’ of practical operation. However, when partnership has been seen as a good thing, it has also often been thought as a ‘faith’ rather than ‘fact’. Social capital is not only beneficial to consolidate organizational identification and group cohesion, but also to play as a ‘glue’ or ‘grease’ of creating and maintaining relationship and interaction within and between organizations, and to act as a ‘catalyst’ of fighting for resources outward. As an important strategy of social welfare service practice, the operation of partnership needs input of tangible resources, and support of intangible social capital as a basis. The relationship between social capital and partnership is worthy of paying attention. Accordingly, based on the perspective of ‘network governance’, this research is intended to discover the correlation of social capital and partnership, and further aims to achieving the following goals: 1.To understand the general pictures of organizational and individual social capital of social welfare service organizations. 2.To analyze the status quo of inter-organizational partnership in social welfare service field. 3.To analyze the correlation of social capital and partnership in social welfare service filed, and to create the relational model of both facts. 4.To reflect the operational model of social capital and partnership, and its implications for network governance, and further to provide suggestions of related strategies enhancing social capital and partnership. To achieve the mentioned goals, quantitative method is adopted in this research. After reviewing literatures related to governance, social capital and partnership, a set of structured questionnaire was designed by researcher, and representatives of social welfare organizations registered in central Taiwan were surveyed and interviewed. A total of 323 questionnaires were completed and analyzed. The main findings are shown and discussed as followed. 1.The characteristics of social capital containing private and public goods is not only enhancing various elements of social capital, but also possessing the traits of complementary and reciprocal. Obviously, the accumulation of social capital is not a zero-sum game, but with a double effect of added-multiplication and positive circulation. 2.Most of the interviewers agreed with the idea of partnership, and expected to bringing better results for organizations and their services. However, there are significant gaps between idea and reality in practical operation. 3.There are highly and positively significant correlation between social capital and partnership, in particular the influence of ‘network’ variable on the partnership. Accordingly, based on the social capital, if organizations could take advantage of the asset, their partnership with others could be constructed and developed better. Based on the previous findings and discussion, and the perspectives of network governance and social capital, this research is concluded by providing suggestions for further creating and developing partnership from policy, practice and academic aspects.