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- Title
Social Marketisation and Policy Influence of Third Sector Organisations: Evidence from the UK.
- Authors
Han, Jun
- Abstract
The marketisation of social sector organisations or social marketisation emerged and spread around the world in the past three decades. In contrast with existing literature which claims that social marketisation makes social sector organisations reduce their efforts on advocacy and thus harms a civil society, this research argues that social marketisation is positively contributed to the influence of third sector organisations on government policies, and thus it strengthens civil society, rather than erodes it. Based on the National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises in the UK, the results of regression analyses indicate clearly that, when other factors are equal, the two indicators of social marketisation, social entrepreneurship and achieving government contracts for purchasing services, are both statistically significant in estimating the level of policy influence of third sector organisations. The contribution of this research is that it finds a positive, instead of a negative, relationship between social marketisation and the perceived policy influence of third sector organisations.
- Subjects
SOCIAL marketing; SOCIAL advocacy; BRITISH social policy; CIVIL society; SOCIAL enterprises
- Publication
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary & Nonprofit Organizations, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 3, p1209
- ISSN
0957-8765
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11266-017-9853-1