Strategic manipulation of nonprofit and for-profit legal statuses: A reflexive issue of privatization policies

• Project/Area Number: 15H03433
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Toyo University
• Principal Investigator: Suda Yuko 東洋大学, 社会学部, 教授 (60339207)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 平岡 公一 お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 教授 (10181140) ; 森川 美絵 津田塾大学, 総合政策学部, 教授 (40325999) ; 今村 肇 東洋大学, 国際学部, 教授 (70176501)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
• Budget Amount: ¥7,930,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,830,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: 非営利 / 営利 / 介護保険 / 民営化 / 市場化 / 対人サービス / サービス供給組織 / 社会福祉法人 / 再帰的課題 / 高齢者ケア / 法人格 / 市民 / 高齢者福祉 / 民営化政策

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Based on the panel survey of nonprofit and for-profit organizations providing service as part of the Long-Term Care Insurance System in Japan, this study investigated the way a service organization strategically chose a nonprofit or for-profit status as a means to effectively pursue its organizational goals. The outcomes demonstrated that such strategic manipulation of legal statuses was exercised at a level of parenting entity which managed multiple branches. However, at a level of branch organization, whether its legal status was nonprofit or for-profit was reflected as differences in the activities of daily service provision including the behaviors of individual care staff members.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

介護保険制度は、我が国で最初に民営化された公的対人サービスの仕組みであり、ここにおいて社会福祉法人やNPO法人等の非営利組織と、株式会社に代表される営利組織が、同様の立場でサービス供給活動に参加することとなった。本研究は、法人格の異なりによる介護保険指定事業者の組織行動の相違について実証に検討するとともに、非営利の事業者の存在意義と今後の課題に関わる議論に貢献する。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] Hunter College/Arizona State University(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Queens University(カナダ)
• [Int'l Joint Research] 中國文化大學(台湾）(その他の国・地域)
• [Int'l Joint Research] 中世大学(台湾)
• [Int'l Joint Research] 中国文化大学(台湾)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Hunter College(米国)
• [Journal Article] Changes in citizen participation in Japanese civil society. (2018)
  • Author(s): Yuko Suda
  • Journal Title: Journalism and Masscommunication Volume: 7(10) Pages: 574-586
  • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Changes in citizen participation in Japanese civil society. (2018)
  • Author(s): Yuko Suda
  • Journal Title: 21世紀ヒューマン・インタラクション・リサーチ・センター Volume: 15 Pages: 15-29
• [Journal Article] 民間サービス供給組織の広域化と地方自治体の役割 (2017)
  • Author(s): 須田木綿子
  • Journal Title: 社会政策学 Volume: 9(2) Pages: 101-112
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Japans’s proposition of civil society and the Japan Welfare Sociology Association (2015)
  • Author(s): Yuko Suda
  • Journal Title: 福祉社会学研究 Volume: 12 Pages: 134-138
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Changing relationships between nonprofit and for-profit human service organizations under the long-term care system in Japan (2014)
  • Author(s): Suda, Y.
  • Journal Title: Voluntas Volume: Currently available online Issue: 5 Pages: 1-25
  • DOI: 10.1007/s11266-014-9439-0
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Presentation] Manifest and latent functions of nonprofit and for-profit organizations: Long-Term Care Insurance System in Japan. (2018)
  • Author(s): Yuko Suda
  • Organizer: 47th Annual Conference of Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Actions
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 非営利―営利サービス供給組織のエコロジー：Middle-ground approach (2018)
  • Author(s): 須田木綿子
  • Organizer: 第16回福祉社会学会年次大会
• [Presentation] 老年社会科学研究のための研究倫理 (2018)
  • Author(s): 須田木綿子
  • Organizer: 老年社会科学会第60回大会・研究倫理委員会企画セッション
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Changes in citizen participation in Japanese civil society. (2017)
  • Author(s): Yuko Suda
  • Organizer: 2017 ARNOVA Asian conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The features and challenges of the long-term care in Japan. (2017)
  • Author(s): Yuko Suda
  • Organizer: Social entrepreneurial activities and nonprofit organizations in China
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Long Term Care Insurance (LTCI) : Focusing on Nonprofit and For-profit Service organizations (2017)
  • Author(s): Yuko Suda
  • Organizer: International Conference on the innovation and development of social entrepreneurship and employment for the disabled in Asia
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Changes in citizen participation in Japanese civil society (2017)
  • Author(s): Yuko Suda
  • Organizer: Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Action: Asian Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Renmin University of China’s School of Public Administration and Policy
• [Presentation] 民営化政策とコミュニティ形成：市場原理と管理主義の視点から (2016)
  • Author(s): 須田木綿子
  • Organizer: 第133回社会政策学会
  • Place of Presentation: 同志社大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-10-16
• [Presentation] 公的対人サービスの民営化と非営利―営利組織：7年間のパネル調査の総括 (2016)
  • Author(s): 須田木綿子
  • Organizer: 第14回福祉社会学会年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 奈良女子大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-18
• [Presentation] Public human services and civicness in the era of post-welfare stat (2015)
  • Author(s): Yuko Suda
  • Organizer: Taiwanese Association for Social Welfare
  • Place of Presentation: 台湾
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-16
  • Invited
• [Book] 東アジアの高齢者ケア (2018)
  • Author(s): 須田木綿子・平岡公一・森川美絵（編）
  • Total Pages: 350
  • Publisher: 東信堂
  • ISBN: 9784798914886
• [Book] 東アジアの高齢者ケア (2017)
  • Author(s): 須田木綿子
  • Total Pages: 350
  • Publisher: 東信堂