政府與非營利組織之夥伴關係為近年來政府推行政策的一個重要運作方式，其乃是因國家整體政經結構改變，民間參與的興起、民營化風潮的衝擊及公共管理型態的改變等內外環境因素影響，促使夥伴關係的運用。 本研究之目的在於瞭解責信與自主性關係的內涵，從非營利組織的角度探討在公私協力中非營利組織與政府之間的互動情形，以及思考在公私協力中如何平衡責信與非營利組織自主性，透過文獻分析與質性研究之半結構式訪談，訪談大綱則是以制度相關理論及夥伴關係為基礎，運用核心概念歸納出三個主要觀察面向：行政協調(強制力)、資源互賴(誘因)、信任程度(規範)，從訪談發現非營利組織與政府的互動情況進行相關分析。 本研究之研究發現，行政協調有利於共同認可而制訂的責任與義務；資源互賴可促進資源交換與綿密的互動以達成組織目標；信任可增強長期的夥伴關係與未來合作意願；最後提出後續研究建議，以作為未來研究者之思考方向。 在政府與非營利組織的公私協力關係中，契約外包乃是目前新公共管理運動下的最新發展趨勢，且對於責信與自主性論戰，有其重要性。進而探討政府契約所延伸的責信要求，並不一定會損及非營利組織的自主性，然對於自主性議題，仍宜採自律為主，他律為輔方式為主，以利非營利組織體質之健全發展。 The transform of whole political and economic structures has led to a new model for countries to execute public policies, i.e. partnerships between governments and nonprofit organizations. Besides, internal and external factors have caused partnerships to be realized in the public policy such as rise of private participation, trends toward civilization of state-owned enterprises and a change of public management type recently. This study aims to understand what is the relationship between accountability and autonomy in nonprofit organizations with focus on how the public-private partnership is developed and goes when they interact with governments. In addition, finding a balance between accountability and autonomy is another main idea in this thesis. This research is qualitative, which will be done through the literature analysis and semi-unstructured interview. The outline for interviews is organized by referring to the literatures on the system and partnerships theories and therefore, three main concepts can be derived from them including administrative coordination (forcible means,) resource dependency (incentives and motives,) and degree of trust (normativity.) The study concludes that administrative coordination does help public sector and third sector seek a consensus and establish some rules of game governing mutual responsibilities and obligations, and resource dependency helps reach organizational goals by making resources exchanged and interactions closer. Additionally, a higher degree of trust can intensify the partnerships in a long term and increase the willingness of cooperation. In the conclusion, several suggestions presented are the ideas that may direct researchers who will study the same issues in the future to think of in different ways. “Contracting-out” is the latest trend in the new public management movement and when mentioning accountability and autonomy, considered a kind of important and classic discussions in the literatures on the partnerships between governments and nonprofit organizations. This research finds that institutionalized accountability from public sector is not necessary to impact the autonomy of third sector. However, a better way to help development of nonprofit organizations is to adopt self-regulation as a primary strategy and regulation as a second one.
