VoluntasPub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00613-8
Iwona Nowakowska
{"title":"Altruists will be Altruists, but What About Individualists? The Role of Future Time Perspective and Social Value Orientation in Volunteers’ Declarations to Continue Engagement in Three Time Horizons","authors":"Iwona Nowakowska","doi":"10.1007/s11266-023-00613-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-023-00613-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Volunteering involves caring for the outcomes of others and typically long-term orientation so that one can achieve goals that are not always clearly visible in the short term. As with any activity, volunteering attracts people of different social value orientations—some rather individualistic, some rather altruistic. The aim of the study was to find out whether the future time perspective, which promotes thinking about future goals and planning, is linked to volunteers' declarations of the probability of them continuing volunteering in a month, year, and three years and whether this link is moderated by social value orientation. An online questionnaire-based study was performed on a sample of 245 volunteers. The results indicated that the higher the social value orientation, the greater the predicted probability of continuing volunteering. Future time perspective was related to the predicted probability of continuing volunteering in all investigated time horizons only when volunteers had a more individualistic than altruistic social value orientation. Younger age and longer experience with volunteering were also linked to the predicted probability of continuing volunteering in a year and three years (but not in one month). The results show the importance of social value orientation and future time perspective for more individualistic volunteers in their willingness to volunteer further. The study has practical implications for organizations' management, who should consider developing cooperation skills in their volunteers. For competitive volunteers, they may also highlight how challenges could make an impact in the future so that they intend to remain active.","PeriodicalId":48082,"journal":{"name":"Voluntas","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135994405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VoluntasPub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00612-9
Micheal L. Shier, Aaron Turpin, John R. Graham
{"title":"Partnership Dynamics That Support Social Innovation by Nonprofits","authors":"Micheal L. Shier, Aaron Turpin, John R. Graham","doi":"10.1007/s11266-023-00612-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-023-00612-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48082,"journal":{"name":"Voluntas","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VoluntasPub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00608-5
Helmut K. Anheier
{"title":"Comparative Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Sectors: Looking Back and Looking Forward","authors":"Helmut K. Anheier","doi":"10.1007/s11266-023-00608-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-023-00608-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While comparative research on nonprofit organizations has made much progress since the launch of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project in 1990, there now seems to be a loss of momentum. Some of the reasons for this have to do with aspects of definition, classification, and aggregation that can be corrected. The main issue, however, is the lack of progress in advancing comparative nonprofit sector theories beyond the social origins theory. To remedy this, the essay proposes four ways forward as part of a new research agenda.","PeriodicalId":48082,"journal":{"name":"Voluntas","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135828655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VoluntasPub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00607-6
Susan Appe
{"title":"Latin America and the Caribbean: A Tradition of Strong Civil Society and Third Sector Scholarship","authors":"Susan Appe","doi":"10.1007/s11266-023-00607-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-023-00607-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48082,"journal":{"name":"Voluntas","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135152881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VoluntasPub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00604-9
Yuan Cheng, ChiaKo Hung
{"title":"Exploring the Moderators of the Relationship Between Nonprofit Sector Size and Its Societal Impact: A Meta-Analysis","authors":"Yuan Cheng, ChiaKo Hung","doi":"10.1007/s11266-023-00604-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-023-00604-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48082,"journal":{"name":"Voluntas","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135152887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VoluntasPub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00601-y
Jennifer Alexander, María Verónica Elías, Melissa Gómez Hernández
{"title":"CSO Advocacy and Managing Risk in Hybrid Regimes: An Exploration of Human Rights Organizations in Colombia","authors":"Jennifer Alexander, María Verónica Elías, Melissa Gómez Hernández","doi":"10.1007/s11266-023-00601-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-023-00601-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48082,"journal":{"name":"Voluntas","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135394222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VoluntasPub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00603-w
Dominik Karner, Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer
{"title":"From Home to Heaven: The Spatial Imaginaries of Nonprofit Organizations","authors":"Dominik Karner, Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer","doi":"10.1007/s11266-023-00603-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-023-00603-w","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We investigate how nonprofit organizations (NPOs) construct imaginaries of their premises, their local environment, and beyond. Based on a qualitative analysis of the websites of 209 randomly sampled NPOs in a metropolitan region in Central Europe, we find four distinct spatial imaginaries: (1) The world polity imaginary constructs NPOs as a part of a spatial environment that is neatly divided into nation states, supranational structures, and subnational units. (2) In the world society imaginary, NPOs are active in blurred, fluid, and overlapping spaces such as networks, commercialized spaces, or natural habitats. (3) In a religious imaginary, the material world is complemented by a transcendental realm and categorized into spaces of the sacred and the evil. (4) Finally, in a lococentric imaginary, NPOs construct a dichotomy between \"home\" and the alien rest of the world. Each of these spatial imaginaries conveys distinctive ways of situating the organization in their spatial environment and implies specific organizational practices and emotional enchantments of space.","PeriodicalId":48082,"journal":{"name":"Voluntas","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135394225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VoluntasPub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00598-4
Filippo Oncini, Alejandro Ciordia
{"title":"Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester","authors":"Filippo Oncini, Alejandro Ciordia","doi":"10.1007/s11266-023-00598-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-023-00598-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48082,"journal":{"name":"Voluntas","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91035038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}