In Search of Legitimacy: Managerialism and Legitimation in Civil Society Organizations

In Search of Legitimacy: Managerialism and Legitimation in Civil Society Organizations
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寻找合法性:民间社会组织的管理主义和合法性

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2012
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VOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
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通讯作者:
Anahid Aghamanoukjan
Anahid Aghamanoukjan
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作者:
Michael Meyer;R. Buber;Anahid Aghamanoukjan

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在这篇文章中,我们调查的合法化帐户使用的公民社会组织(CSOs)的变化,在传播管理主义的背景下,我们这个时代最强大的制度实践之一,在第三部门。我们首先介绍了合法性和合法性帐户的概念,然后展示管理主义如何体现在民间社会组织,并提出了三个管理主义帐户用于合法化这样的组织:效率和有效性(E&E),利益相关者的需求和创新。然后,我们实证研究了1995年至2008年间这些账户的使用如何变化。为了做到这一点,我们定量分析了奥地利民间社会组织在规定时期内制作的年度报告样本的内容,并将话语分析应用于较小的一组报告,以揭示更细粒度的发展。我们的研究结果显示了显著的变化:在我们选择的账户中,与管理主义联系最紧密的E&E,到2008年已经被视为理所当然,而利益相关者的需求和创新的更一般和微妙的概念比1995年更强烈。
In this article, we investigate the changes in the legitimating accounts used by Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), in the context of spreading managerialism—one of the most powerful institutional practices of our time—in the Third Sector. We first introduce the concepts of legitimacy and legitimating account, before showing how managerialism manifests itself in CSOs and presenting three managerialist accounts used to legitimate such organizations: efficiency and effectiveness (E&E), stakeholder’s needs, and innovation. We then examine empirically how the use of these accounts changed between 1995 and 2008. In order to do so, we analyze quantitatively the contents of a sample of annual reports produced by Austrian CSOs over the stated period, and apply discourse analysis to a smaller group of reports to reveal more fine-grained developments. Our results show significant changes: of our chosen accounts, the one most tightly linked with managerialism, E&E, had come to be taken-for-granted by 2008, whereas the more generic and subtle concepts of stakeholder’s needs and innovation featured more strongly than in 1995.