| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 社會工作系所 === 102 === Over the recent years, natural and accidental disasters have taken place frequently in Taiwan as a result of global climatic changes and man-made hazards. Moreover, occurrence of disaster is always unforeseen. In 2009, Typhoon Morakot caused serious disaster, which pushes people to think about investment of substantial resources in post-disaster reconstruction work. However, due to bulky system, government cannot be mobilized as immediately as non-governmental organization. Therefore, the author believes that civil society resources must be integrated for post-disaster reconstruction so as to compensate for deficiencies of the government, and that social enterprise developed from community shall be regarded as important resources. With social capital viewpoint as main point of analysis, this study investigates roles and functions of social enterprise in post-Morakot community reconstruction. It has five objectives as below: (1) analyze development process of organization, background of industrial development and current operation of social enterprise in order to provide a reference for future organizational transformation or social enterprise establishment. (2) Investigate factors that promote setting up of social enterprise. (3) Discuss about how the social enterprise utilizes social capital to establish its role and position in post-disaster community reconstruction. (4) Probe into significance of social enterprise’s investment in community reconstruction after major disaster. (5) By virtue of research findings, propose suggestions for social enterprise to operate post-disaster community reconstruction.
The present study uses qualitative approach to conduct in-depth interviews with eight social enterprises and thirteen staffs there. Based on these interviewees’ experiences and perspectives, it utilizes three elements of social capital viewpoint-trust, network and norm-to analyze roles and functions of social enterprise in post-disaster community reconstruction.
The present study has following findings. (1) For investment in post-disaster community reconstruction, social enterprise should consider local resources and characteristics. (2) Social enterprise can show its value in public benefits through participation in post-disaster community reconstruction work. (3) Factors that promote non-profit organizations to found social enterprise in community after disaster include: increased financial autonomy, social demands, encouragement from government policy or program, and etc. (4) Trust, network and norm play different roles when social enterprise invests in post-Morakot community reconstruction. For instance, trust lays a foundation for cooperation, network connection facilitates industrial development, and norm can maintain reputation of the organization. (5) Difficulties and challenges of social enterprise operation can be classified into two aspects: intra-organization (finance, resource collection, industry operation, difficulty in professional staff acquisition, etc) and external-environment (lack of legal environment, economic downturn, difficulty in industry promoting, organizational legitimacy, etc).
Finally, according to analysis of research findings, this study puts forward respective proposals in regard to social enterprise organization, the government, associated policy and future relevant researches, in hope of providing a reference for social enterprise to invest in community reconstruction work after major disaster.
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