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0000-0002-9563-5732
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Victoria University of Wellington
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Publisher: CABI
Date: 2009
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: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 23-12-2015
DOI: 10.3727/152599515X14465748512605
Abstract: Posed as a question that an event organizer might contemplate in terms of how best to attract and retain event volunteers, this study adds to the event volunteering literature by cluster analyzing volunteers s led at four sports events using items from the Special Event Volunteer Motivation Scale (SEVMS). The 28 items were first subjected to Exploratory Factor Analysis resulting in four factors (Solidary, Purposive, External Traditions/Commitments, and Spare Time), followed by a two-step clustering procedure and a series of post hoc tests to describe and validate the clusters. As a result of this procedure, three distinct clusters were formed: the Altruists, Socials, and Indifferents. The Altruists and Socials were primarily driven by two distinct internal factors, which respectively represented the Purposive and Solidary factors. The Indifferents appeared to be pushed into volunteering by external forces, rather than intrinsic motivations. Validation revealed that the Indifferents were significantly less satisfied with their volunteer experience than the other two clusters and were also less likely to volunteer in the future. Across the four events s led, there were distinct patterns of cluster representation, with one event in particular substantially overrepresented by the more negatively inclined Indifferents. The management and research implications of these findings are discussed.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-10-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-08-2014
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 31-08-2020
DOI: 10.3727/152599519X15506259856327
Abstract: Using a sustainable event legacy timeline, this article examines the extent to which the existing volunteering infrastructure supporting volunteer management in the host city were engaged before, during, and after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to generate a legacy for volunteering. This infrastructure includes volunteering peak bodies, volunteer resource centers, national sport governing bodies, community organizations and local government. A case study of the London 2012 Games was employed involving extensive documentary evidence and interviews with senior level informants. The findings revealed limitations with official legacy planning and a failure to engage with the voluntary sector in the host city. The event legacy timeline is combined with four key themes to emerge from the data to conceptualize an event legacy stakeholder engagement matrix. This identifies recommendations to enable future host cities to optimize opportunities from Olympic Games volunteer programs to generate wider community benefits.
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 23-12-2015
DOI: 10.3727/152599515X14465748774001
Abstract: Many music festivals fail because the experiences offered do not ensure relevance and meaning to the attendee. Engagement with new and virtual landscapes and with the enhanced sensory feelings and imaginations that technologies can offer may alleviate this. Utilizing a futures frame, this conceptual article contributes to the pursuit of successful future event design by applying a normative visionary methodology—employing trend analysis, scenarios, and science fiction to create prototypes that may assist in the formation of appropriate experience options and opportunities for music festivals of the future. It is proposed that this technique may aid positive social outcomes.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-07-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2010
Publisher: CABI
Date: 2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-05-2014
Abstract: Volunteer tourism has attracted increasing attention among tourism industry practitioners and researchers. As an indication of the scale and scope of the phenomenon, most volunteer tourists have been residents of developed countries visiting developing countries to participate in community development initiatives, scientific research and ecological restoration projects. The researchers have reviewed the literature to determine the drivers of growth that have shaped volunteer tourism and have examined the trends affecting tourism and economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region over the medium to longer term. These exploratory inputs serve to inform three scenarios about the likely shape of volunteer tourism within the region leading to 2050: the first scenario predicts a steady state, the second growing participation, and the final proposition, one of diminishing viability. The prospective implications for volunteer tourism arising from these various scenarios are discussed, together with a concluding agenda for future research.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-11-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-04-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-04-2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-10-2021
Publisher: Pravni Fakultet Sveucilista u Zagrebu (Law School of the University of Zagreb)
Date: 06-04-2012
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-10-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-05-2012
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 04-10-2019
Publisher: CABI
Date: 2009
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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