Abstract:

The policy design or practical impact of multiple mechanisms to promote common prosperity has received more attention. However, researchers have focused on the role of government-based administrative mechanisms and enterprise-based market mechanisms. What remains neglected is the different driving logics, mechanism designs, and specific roles of social organizations as the primary community mechanisms to promote common prosperity. This study took as a its research subject the high-quality construction of a common prosperity demonstration area in Zhejiang. We conducted a theoretical analysis using a “systematical logic driving - multiple mechanisms complementary embedding - multidisciplinary roles playing” framework of the driving logic and internal mechanisms of social organizations in promoting common prosperity. Our findings indicate that: (1) social organizations' advancement of common prosperity is steered by various institutional logics, including government logic, market logic, and community logic; (2) diverse blends of institutional logics impact the varied roles that social organizations play in different aspects of common prosperity, such as economic growth, income distribution, and social management; and, (3) social organizations' contributions to common prosperity are achieved through the integrated use of multiple mechanisms. At the theoretical level, this study enhances the research on social organizations as the primary entity in the integrated use of multiple mechanisms to promote common prosperity. At the practical level, the study's findings offer valuable insights for social organizations seeking to advance common prosperity in China.

Key words: social organizations, common prosperity, institutional logic, multiple mechanisms, complementary embedding