The concept of legitimacy—ie, being regarded as “lawful, admissible, and justified”(Edwards
in NGO rights and responsibilities: a new deal for global governance, The Foreign Policy …

This article deals with the policy discourse on social innovation at the European Union (EU)
level as well as across nine European countries. We perform an exploratory analysis of …

China has adopted purchase of services to facilitate the development of the societal sector,
including social organisations, the social work profession and social services. Project‐based …

Organizational resilience is an emerging and important concept that focuses on building the
capacity of human service organizations. While numerous studies documented challenges …

Community development has been undergoing changes in its practices in response to the
neoliberal changes occurring in various welfare contexts (Brenner and Theodore, 2005; …

In the last two decades, the Chinese government has made serious attempts to enhance
social provision by contracting out social services. Empirical evidence suggests that …

Using the Guangzhou social governance reform pilot as a case, this paper aims to explore
the transformation of Chinese governments in managing collaborative non-governmental …

Zusammenfassung Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs), so der Befund aus Wissenschaft
und Praxis, übernehmen immer häufiger Praktiken und Strukturen von …

How emerging adults, broadly referring to those aged from 18 to 29 years old, fare in civic
engagement, as compared with other adults is the focus of the present work. The work takes …

School social workers play the main role in the Hong Kong local school mental health
system. Recent research has indicated that Hong Kong school social workers experience …