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0000-0003-3200-8042
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-09-2009
Abstract: This research adopts the utilitarian view of volunteering as a starting point: we posit that for an undergraduate student population volunteering is motivated by career enhancing and job prospects. We hypothesize that in those countries where volunteering signals positive characteristics of students and helps advance their careers, their volunteer participation will be higher. Furthermore, regardless of the signaling value of volunteering, those students who volunteer for utilitarian reasons will be more likely to volunteer but will exhibit less time-intensive volunteering. Using survey data from 12 countries ( n = 9,482), we examine our hypotheses related to motivations to volunteer, volunteer participation, and country differences. Findings suggest that students motivated to volunteer for building their résumés do not volunteer more than students with other motives. However, in countries with a positive signaling value of volunteering, volunteering rates are significantly higher. As expected, students motivated by résumé building motivations have a lower intensity of volunteering.
Publisher: University of Alberta Libraries
Date: 26-10-2010
DOI: 10.22230/CJNSER.2010V1N1A2
Abstract: Programmes targeting student volunteering and service learning are part of encouraging civic behaviour amongst young people. This article reports on a large scale international survey comparing volunteering amongst tertiary students at universities in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The data revealed high rates of student volunteering and the popularity of occasional or episodic volunteering. There were strong commonalities in student volunteering behaviour, motivations and benefits across the five Western predominately English-speaking countries. Altruism and self-orientated career motivations and benefits were most important to students however volunteering and non-volunteering students differed in the relative value they attached to volunteering for CV-enhancement and social factors.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-04-2011
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-07-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 05-01-2018
DOI: 10.1093/ESR/JCX086
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-02-2021
Abstract: In this article, we examine whether and how the institutional context matters when understanding in iduals’ giving to philanthropic organizations. We posit that both the in iduals’ propensity to give and the amounts given are higher in countries with a stronger institutional context for philanthropy. We examine key factors of formal and informal institutional contexts for philanthropy at both the organizational and societal levels, including regulatory and legislative frameworks, professional standards, and social practices. Our results show that while aggregate levels of giving are higher in countries with stronger institutionalization, multilevel analyses of 118,788 in iduals in 19 countries show limited support for the hypothesized relationships between institutional context and philanthropy. The findings suggest the need for better comparative data to understand the complex and dynamic influences of institutional contexts on charitable giving. This, in turn, would support the development of evidence-based practices and policies in the field of global philanthropy.
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