Institutional Innovations

Institutional Innovations of Nonprofit Social Service Providers in Hong Kong

Objectives

• To ground the competency model in different organisational contexts
• To provide a road map of institutional framework development for different strategic courses of action on service development
• To inform strategic leadership development and enhance strategic leadership competencies of board directors and senior executives
• To contribute to the development of theories on institutional entrepreneurship, institutional change, organisational change, nonprofit management and governance

Project Co-Investigators

• Professor Cecilia Chan, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
• Professor Christine Fang, Faculty of Social Sciences

Collaborator

• The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS)

Target Sector

• Nonprofit social service providers

Expected Deliverables

• A qualitative study to ground the competency model in different organisational contexts
• Enrich this competency model with new data from non-subvented social service organisations
• Four seminars by HKCSS Institute for board directors and CEOs/Directors and senior executives
• A joint symposium by HKU and HKCSS Institute
• A research paper for findings’ reporting