A Test for the Welfare-Partnership: Austria’s Nonprofit Human Service Organizations in Times of Covid-19

Michael Meyer; Reinhard Millner; Martin Mehrwald; Paul Rameder

doi:10.1080/23303131.2023.2186556

A Test for the Welfare-Partnership: Austria’s Nonprofit Human Service Organizations in Times of Covid-19

Michael Meyer, Reinhard Millner, Martin Mehrwald, Paul Rameder

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Abstract

The pandemic has impeded Austrian NPHSOs on multiple levels: service delivery, income streams, costs, and human resources. To analyze the consequences, we tackle two questions: How has the neo-corporatist welfarepartnership between the government and NPHSOs passed this stress-test? What are the potential effects on the overall composition of the sector? Theoretically, we draw on social origins theory to explain the welfarepartnership in Vienna. Empirically, we analyze online-survey-data and interviews with NPHSO-executives from 2021. The results indicate that Vienna’s welfare-partnership has passed this stress-test successfully, but overall in favor of large NPHSOs, thus forwarding concentration in the sector.

Original language	English
Number of pages	14
Journal	Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership and Governance
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2023.2186556
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 5 Mar 2023

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

502023 NPO research

Keywords

Welfare Partnership
NPOs
COVID-19 pandemic

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