The Role of the Informal Institution: How Does It Shape the Trust Relationship Between Government and Social Organizations in China?

Autor:	Yuanyuan Xu, Cheng Fu, Wen Tu, Fujun Zhou
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 Social Sciences
Zdroj:	SAGE Open, Vol 14 (2024)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2158-2440 21582440
DOI:	10.1177/21582440241251930
Popis:	This paper analyses the influences of informal institutions on interorganizational trust. Based on a case study, it identifies five impact paths of informal institutions operating between government and social organizations in China: internal referencing, direct entrustment, office visits, favor provision, and key figure decision-making. Most of these function to maintain relationships and facilitate affection. Trust in these informal institutions is particularistic, exclusive, limited in transferability, discrete, and information based. Accordingly, this paper shows that while informal institutions can foster simple cooperation between a particular government and social organization, they can also strengthen the power imbalance between these two subjects and undermine basic public values.
Databáze:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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