Market stewardship of social care quasi-markets has been an important area of inquiry. While most focus has been on central government stewardship, local level actors can also play a role. Using a case study of the Australian National Disability Insurance scheme, this article focuses on both how service providers can be market stewards and whether they should be. Findings suggest that while some aspects of market stewardship are appropriate for service providers to perform, others may be better done by different actors. We propose a preliminary framework for distributed stewardship to help join up the work of local level actors with central agencies.

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服务提供商在社会关怀准市场中是否发挥市场管理作用？是否应该？

社会护理准市场的市场管理一直是一个重要的研究领域。虽然大多数焦点都集中在中央政府的管理上，但地方层面的参与者也可以发挥作用。本文通过澳大利亚国家残障保险计划的案例研究，重点讨论服务提供商如何成为市场管理者以及他们是否应该成为市场管理者。调查结果表明，虽然市场管理的某些方面适合服务提供商执行，但其他方面可能由不同的参与者来更好地完成。我们提出了一个分布式管理的初步框架，以帮助将地方层面的参与者与中央机构的工作结合起来。