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Research On Identity Governance & Harmonious Development Models Of China's Urban Residents Community Organizations

Posted on:2009-02-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Q ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360272478444Subject:Management Science and Engineering
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The functions of China's governments performed in controlling the society have changed importantly since the middle of 1990s with the deepening reform of China's economic system. The changes of the social economic conditions have influenced China's urban residents community organizations significantly. On the one hand, the urban residents community organizations have revived and have become increasingly stronger with their increasingly better functions of urban social management at the basic level. They have played an important role in the urban community public management and services at the basic levels and become an indispensable and important organizational force. On the other hand, with the fast development of China's urban residents community organizations and their increasing importance in the social and economic life, the complexity and non-harmoniousness between the organizations have become serious. It is therefore necessary to strengthen the research on the harmonious development mechanism of urban residents community organizations. Therefore the research on the harmonious development of urban residents community organizations is of theoretical and practical importance in building a harmonious society.Under the background of dividing governmental functions China's urban residents community organizations developed with the help of the government department's resources, so China's urban residents community organizations have countless ties with the government. Hence China's urban residents community organizations have the system characteristics with special identity governance. The changes of community organization's identity will inevitably change the model of identity governance of urban residents community organizations, thereby changing the path of harmonious development of the organizations. Therefore, the harmonious development of urban residents community organizations can not be discussed without the confirmation of their identity.Under the social background that the functions of economic system and administrative system change simultaneously, the characteristics of identity management over China's urban residents community organizations have also changed. The market-oriented reform has resulted in re-allocation of resources and brought about the contradictions and conflicts of identity governance of urban community organizations. Accordingly, this paper raises the following three questions: (1) What are the institutional attributes of the real identity dissimilation of urban residents community organizations? (2) What are the contradictions between harmoniousness and non- harmoniousness of urban residents community organization identity governance? (3) What coordinating mechanism is needed in the models of urban residents community organization identity governance?Centering on the above three questions, the paper develops the research subject of "identity governance and harmonious development of China's urban residents community organizations". Under the background of splitting up the government administration functions and supported by the comprehensive analyzing methods which combine the theories of organization symbiosis and new institutional economics, this paper formulates a logic framework for the analysis of urban residents community organization identity governance, discusses the nature of their real identity dissimilation, the institutional attributes and institutional effect of the urban residents community organization identity governance, deals with the internal factors of the contradictions between harmoniousness and non-harmoniousness, the forms of expression, and its comprehensive effect of the urban residents community organization identity governance shown in the urban residents community organization administration, explains the causes of adjusting the models of urban residents community organization identity governance, the factors of change resistance, and its influences. On this basis, the paper redefines the functional boundary and role scope of urban residents community organizations, explores the harmonious development mechanism of urban residents community organization's identity governance, and puts forward the ways and policy-ensuring measures to optimize the models of harmonious development in urban residents community organization identity governance.In the deeper research centering around the subject of "identity governance and harmonious development of China's urban residents community organizations", the paper forms the following four innovative points of view:(1) The basic hypotheses of the research on community organizations have been expanded in Chapter 2 of this paper. The existing community theories discuss the nature of urban residents community organizations in terms of their single attribute. However, the author of this paper assumes that the fundamental reasons for the dissimilation of urban residents community organizations in China from "autonomous organizations" into "administrative organizations" are determined by "the institutional attributes of identity governance". The identity governance of urban residents community organizations is embodied as dual institutional attributes of "identity governance" and "contract governance". The paper therefore begins with the proposition and the basic hypothesis of "identity governance of urban residents community organizations", discussing the system effect of urban residents community organization identity governance from the aspect of identity dissimilation of urban residents community organizations and their system attributes. The dual attributes of urban residents community organizations are harmonious on the one hand; on the other hand they are not harmonious too. Therefore the identity governance model of urban residents community organizations is complicated and diversified. The research on the nature of urban residents community organizations from the point of view of their identity governance is of pioneering significance.(2) In Chapter 3 and Section 4.1 of Chapter 4, the paper reveals the identity dissimilation nature of urban residents community organizations and extends the research contents of urban residents community organizations, that is, the identity dissimilation of urban residents community organizations is to achieve dependence of organizational resources and obtain the legal organization identity. The obtaining of "administrative identity" of urban residents community organizations and their identity governance model connote a clear co-governance system feature of "identity" and "contract". This system attributes derive from two aspects: one is the co-existence result of organizations, the other is the system arrangement result of China's city government administration. This paper points out that the identity features and their identity governance system attributes of urban residents community organizations are expressed in the mutual relationship between urban residents community organizations and community government, units stationed in the community, other organizations in the community, and groups of residents in the community. Since the organizational functions of urban residents community organizations change as the social and economic conditions change, their identity governance models arising out of co-existence relations are diversified and complicated and tend to change irregularly and nonlinearly. Especially, the result of the "two-way dependence" between urban residents community organizations and community governments fosters the dual identity governance institutional attributes of urban residents community organizations.(3) The comprehensive effect of the identity governance of urban residents community organizations are examined from many dimensions in Section 4.2 and 4.3 of Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of this paper. The paper examines the special institutional arrangement of identity governance of urban residents community organizations from many dimensions such as relations of organizational symbiosis and agency relationships of institutional economics, reveals the factors, forms of expression, and comprehensive effect of internal contradictions between the harmoniousness and non-harmoniousness of China's urban residents community organization identity governance. The paper points out that government can make urban residents community organizations realize their identity by administration, thereby making them become the government's coordinating means of social administration at the basic levels in cities. On the one hand, the process of real identity governance of urban residents community organizations is just their administrative process as government organizations. With help of urban residents community organizations as an intermediary, governments can reduce the resistance in their administering basic urban residents community, thereby lowering their administration costs. On the other hand, the process of real identity governance of urban residents community organizations is just the process of internalizing the market trading contracts between organizations. The internalization of the market trading contracts between organizations can economize on the transaction costs between organizations. Identity governance of urban residents community organizations is embodied as "identity governance" and "contractual governance", therefore, the institutional effect of identity governance of urban residents community organizations is reflected as both positive effect and negative effect. The task of urban residents community organizations' administration is to eliminate the negative effect posed by the dual attributes of the identity governance of urban residents community organizations.(4) In Chapter 6 and Chapter 7, coordinating mechanism and development models of urban residents community organization identity governance are put forward, that is, putting forward 8 models of urban residents community organization identity governance according to the symbiosis relationship between urban residents community organizations, community governments, and community resident groups. At the same time the paper proves that differential symbiosis models need a diversified organizational coordinating mechanism and manners. The adjustment of identity governance models of urban residents community organizations, resisting factors of transformation, and their effect have been tested empirically by means of the survey data, whereby the institutional arrangements and policy suggestions to optimize harmonious development of identity governance models of urban residents community organizations are put forward.Through the above research, this paper enriches the research connotations of urban residents community organization identity governance, expands the research contents of urban residents community organization identity governance, which makes the identity governance models of urban residents community organizations more conformable to the actual demands. More importantly, the conclusion of the research in this paper means the choosing of the identity governance models of urban residents community organizations needs to select the suitable ones according to the different situations of various communities. The research results of this paper therefore offer a valuable reference for the transition of and choosing of harmoniously developing ways of various models of community organization identity governance at the basic levels in cities. In practice, this will help China's urban residents community organizations develop healthily.
Keywords/Search Tags:China's Urban Residents Community Organiations, Identity Governance, Non-harmonious Effect, Transition of models, Harmonious development
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