A New Model of Public-Private Partnerships: A Case Study of the Charity Shop in Shanghai, China
Traditionally, the public and private sectors have worked separately in China. With the rise of new public management, there are more and more cooperation between public sector and private sector to improve efficiency, maintain fairness and maximize the social effect. Among various sorts of cooperation, charity shop is one typical model. In Shanghai, charity shops are operated by three main bodies respectively—local government, non-profit organizations or enterprise. The paper has a suggestion that the best way to run a charity shop is the enterprise serving as the leading operators with the support from non-profit organizations and government, which could not only help the target poor residents but also make a profit. The paper uses the methods of literature, case study and interview to conduct research in three districts of Shanghai to discuss about three models. The paper discusses the interactive cooperation between government, enterprises and non-profit organizations based on the three-circle theory of interaction. It concludes that both the charity character and profit making capability are important to charity shop and the maintenance of those two features relies on positive cooperation between the public and private sectors.
Public-private partnership Charity shop Government dominated model Social support model
XU Jia-liang ZHANG Qi-wei LIU Qing-qin
School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai,P.R.China, 200030
国际会议
加纳
英文
64-70
2017-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）