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- Title
Institutionalization or interaction: Which organizational factors help community‐based initiatives acquire government support?
- Authors
Igalla, Malika; Edelenbos, Jurian; van Meerkerk, Ingmar
- Abstract
Increasingly, Western local governments are dealing with community‐based initiatives (CBIs) of citizens providing public services. Municipalities possess critical resources CBIs generally lack, including subsidies, buildings, and exposure. There is still little knowledge on CBIs' factors for government support. Therefore, this study adopts an organizational perspective distinguishing among institutionalization (intraorganizational, e.g., organizational size and democratic legitimacy) and interaction (interorganizational, e.g., boundary spanning leadership [BSL]) factors for the support CBIs obtain from local government. Analyzing large N data (N = 2331) from CBIs in six countries by using structural equation modeling, we found that interaction factors are related to more government support, whereas institutionalization factors are less significant. More specifically, we found stronger relationships for BSL and linking social capital than for the factors related to the formalization and development of organizational infrastructure, including the much‐discussed democratic legitimacy of CBIs, suggesting a limited interest of governments in this topic as a factor for support.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT aid; SOCIAL capital; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; ORGANIZATIONAL legitimacy; LEGITIMACY of governments; ORGANIZATIONAL change; LOCAL government
- Publication
Public Administration, 2021, Vol 99, Issue 4, p803
- ISSN
0033-3298
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/padm.12728