Voluntas

Papers
(The median citation count of Voluntas is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
For the Love of Art? Episodic Volunteering at Cultural Events140
The Effects of Social Economy Organizations’ Networks on Social Innovation in Local Communities: A Multilevel Analysis Using the Social Innovation Index49
Ian Bruce: Vision Changing Charity: RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970–201038
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense36
Altruism, Egoism, and the Wealthy32
Observing Civic Engagement: Using Systematic Social Observation to Study Civil Society Organization Convenings24
The Fight for Global Health Justice: The Advocacy of International Humanitarian and Development NGOs During the COVID-19 Pandemic17
Shariq A. Siddiqui, Rafeel Wasif, & Micah A. Hughes: Understanding Muslim Philanthropy16
Those Who Pay the Piper Calls the Tune: Meta-Organisation and Capacities of the Third Sector in Migration Policies16
Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias16
Donation of Money, Volunteering, and Civic Engagement: How do they Relate to Intergenerational Transmission of Philanthropic Values?15
Comprehensive INGO Accountability to Strengthen Perceived Program Effectiveness: A Logical Thing?15
COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space13
Together Yet Apart: Remedies for Tensions Between Volunteers and Health Care Professionals in Inter-professional Collaboration13
Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint13
Securing Donor Support on Nonprofit Commercialization: The Effects of Thematic and Episodic Message Framing12
Negotiating Spaces or Fizzling Voices? Problematizing NGO-based Civil Society12
The Reproduction of Inequality Through Volunteering by Young Refugees in Uganda12
Urban Public Perceptions of NGOs’ Accountability and Legitimacy: A Social Media Analysis of #UgandaNGOsExhibition12
Civil Society, Volunteerism, and Youth Citizenship in Fiji12
Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context12
Leading Volunteer Motivation: How Leader Behaviour can Trigger and Fulfil Volunteers’ Motivations11
Internal Communication Satisfaction as a Driver of Membership Satisfaction and Identification in a Medical Professional Association11
Correction: Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring Where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why11
The Role and Potential of Grounded Theory in Advancing Nonprofit Research and Theory Development11
Birds of a Feather, Flock Together: Examining Racial Identity and Giving During 202011
Is the Environment a Political Issue? A View from Environmental Civil Society in the Aegean Region of Turkey10
Framing Effects, Procedural Fairness, and the Nonprofit Managers’ Reactions to Job Layoffs in Response to the Economic Shock of the COVID-19 Crisis10
Accessing the Boardroom: Investigating How Prior Research has Included the Perspective of Nonprofit Boards10
Volunteering Behaviors of People of Color in the US Communities: How Community Racial Composition Affects the Type of Organization People of Color Volunteer For10
Thank you, Voluntas Community10
Kearns, Kevin P., & Wang, Wenjiun (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance10
Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations10
Are Mediterranean Nonprofits Adopting the Social Enterprise Model?10
Unmasking the Barriers to Financing Social Enterprises10
Globalizing the Field by Learning from Non-English-Based Nonprofit Studies: A Review of South Korean Nonprofit Literature9
Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why9
Ethnography: Tales of the Nonprofit Field9
The Role of Civil Society Organisations in the Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Italian Labour Market9
Hierarchization, Boundary Making, and Inequality: Exploring the Structural Changes of Chinese Grassroots NGOs in a Transition Era9
Voluntary Sport Clubs are no Fast-Track to Refugee Integration9
The Well-Being of Volunteers Who Serve Children at Risk of Maltreatment8
Agency of Individual Actors in Civil Society Organizations’ Advocacy: A Case Study of the Genesis of the Danish Aliens Act of 19838
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector: A Data Feminist Perspective8
The Systematic Literature Review: Advantages and Applications in Nonprofit Scholarship8
The Perspective of Community Members in the Assessment of the Social Value Generated by Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations8
Organizational or Individual? The Effect of Social Networks on Volunteer Activities in Japan8
Silke Roth and Clare Saunders, Organizing for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organizations, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 2025, 249 pp., Bibliography and Index8
The Pitfalls and Potential of Participant-Observation: Ethnographic Enquiry in Volunteering8
Who is the Broker Matters: How Publics Respond to Crisis Related Cross-Sector Networks on Social Media?8
Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research Santilli, Cecilia, and Roberto Scaramuzzino. Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector: A Comparative Perspective8
Underlying Mechanism to the Identifiable Victim Effect in Collective Donation Action Intentions: Does Emotional Reactions and Perceived Responsibility Matter?7
NGO–Government Relations During Foreign Aid Reduction: Lessons from Thailand’s HIV/AIDS Sector7
Reintermediating Voluntary Action: The Path-Dependent Pluralization of the Italian Volunteering Field7
Who Gives, Who Gets, and How do We Know? The Promises and Limitations of Administrative Data for Cross-border Philanthropy Tracking7
Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips (eds.): Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences7
Food Waste, Food Insecurity and the Globalization of Food Banks7
Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration: A Situational Theory of Partner Selection7
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nonprofit Cataract Surgery Services: A Social Return on Investment Approach at the Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology7
Methods in the Third Sector: Collective Memory-Work in a Complexity Framework7
Regulatory Reviews: Revolutionary Re-imagining of Charity Law or Simply Restatements of Convenience?6
Alicia M. Schatteman, Pursuing Impact: Mission-driven strategic planning for Nonprofits6
Virtual Peer Support: Impact of Online Social Interactions Among Members of a Japanese Single Mothers’ Community6
Exploring Long-Run Cultural and Economic Impacts of Religious Development Organizations Within Affiliated Populations6
Beyond the Social Mission: How Social Responsibility in Nonprofit Organizations May Stimulate Positive Employee Outcomes6
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester6
Voluntas Virtual Issue: Philanthropy6
The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Small-Scale Development Initiatives, a Cross-Country Comparison6
Neoliberalism and the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland by Ciaran Hughes and Marcus Ketola, 2021, Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN: 978-4473-5118-4 (Hardcover)6
Cleopatra Charles & Margaret F. Sloan, Financial Leadership for the Arts: Sustainable Strategies for Creative Organizations, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2024, p. 270, Appe6
Michael Hoelscher, Regina A. List, Alexander Ruser, Stefan Toepler (ed.), Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts. Essays in Honor of Helmut K. Anheier. Springer, Cham, 2022, pp. 494, appendix, 6
Spires, A. J., Global Civil Society and China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 866
Toward a Refined Insight Into the Importance of Volunteers’ Motivations for Need-Based Experiences, Job Satisfaction, Work Effort, and Turnover Intentions in Nonprofit Sports Clubs: A Person-Centered 5
Modernization and the Shifting Bases of Philanthropy? An Empirical Study on Motivations of Individual Giving Based on CLDS5
Toward a New Typology of Professional and Voluntary Care5
Yuha Jung, Neville Vakharia, Marilena Vecco (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management5
Experiential Influences on Volunteers’ Retention and Support Intentions5
Interorganizational Network Portfolios and Social Media Adoption by Nonprofit Organizations5
Engaging Refugee Volunteers in Co-creation: The Role of Non-profit Leadership5
How to Code a Million Missions: Developing Bespoke Nonprofit Activity Codes Using Machine Learning Algorithms5
Philanthropy and Socio-economic Development: The Role of Large Indigenous Voluntary Organizations in Bridging Social Divides in Pakistan5
Using Dictator Game Experiments to Learn About Charitable Giving5
Campagnari Francesco, The Institutionalisation of Civic Initiatives. Practices, Public Effects and Models of Direct Civic Action in Europe5
What Counts? How to use Different Sources of NGO Data5
Resilience in Arts and Cultural Nonprofit Organizations: An Analysis of the Covid-19 Crisis in France5
Mandatory Financial Statements Disclosure and Nonprofits’ Debt Structure: An Empirical Analysis5
A Quantitative Analysis of Policy and Sociocultural Advocacy Within a Neo-corporatist Context5
Serving in Developing Countries: A Mixed Methods Study of International Voluntary Service Performance5
Trust and Motivation in High-Risk Volunteering: An Empirical Study of Norwegian Search-and-Rescue Volunteers5
Absorptive Philanthropic Governance: The Resilience and Differentiation of Chinese Philanthropic Foundations Amidst the Pandemic5
Intermediated Co-production of Emergency Response: How Non-profit Organizations Build Trust in Citizens4
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up4
Exploring Donor Influence and Public Engagement: Computational and Thematic Analyses of Social Media Messages4
Correction to: NGOs’ Approach to the Reintegration of Returned Female Labor Migrants in Bangladesh4
The Invisible Labour of Solidarity: The Glorification of Volunteering and the Feminization of Work in the History of the Italian Social and Solidarity Economy4
The Wells-Du Bois Protocol for Machine Learning Bias: Building Critical Quantitative Foundations for Third Sector Scholarship4
Christopher Pallas: Doctoral Student Skills: Using Your Comparative Advantage to Succeed in Grad School and Prepare for the Job Market4
Overlapping Functions: Volunteering and Other Forms of Civic Participation in the COVID-19 Disaster4
Nonprofit Journals Publication Patterns: Visibility or Invisibility of Gender?4
Tweeting in the ‘Expert Bubble’: Social Media Engagement of German Private Environmental Foundations4
Inquiring Systems and Development Led Inquiry: Uniting the Efforts of Farmers, Development Professionals, and Researchers4
Stigmatized Issues, Divergent Meanings: The Entanglement of Meaning-Making and Forms of Power Among Stakeholders in Liberia’s Mental Health Program4
Social Entrepreneurial Orientation in Nonprofits: The Development and Testing of a Multidimensional Scale4
Book Review: China’s Citizenship Challenge Labour NGOs and the Struggle for Migrant Workers’ Right by Malgorzata Jakimow4
The Contingent Relationship Between Government Size and Nonprofit Sector Size: Exploring the Moderating Effect of Government Regulations4
Dennis R. Young and Elizabeth A. M. Searing: Resilience and the Management of Nonprofit Organizations3
Virtual Reality and Charitable Giving: The Influence of Space, Presence, and Attention3
Financial Sustainability and Influence Dynamics in Yemen's Conflict-Affected NGO Landscape: Unveiling ‘Sheikh’ Organizations3
Georgina Brewis, Angela Ellis Paine, Irene Hardill, Rose Lindsey, Rob Macmillan: Transformational Moments in Social Welfare. What Role for Voluntary Action?3
How Recipients’ Feedback Affects Intention to Remain: An Integrated Perspective on Task Design and Feedback3
Social Innovation: Drawing Lines Around the Appropriative Usage by Mainstream Sectors3
Book Review–How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us, by Lucy Bernholz3
What’s Your History? Methodological Prospects and Challenges of Using Life-History Narratives as an Alternative Method to Assess Nonprofits’ Impacts3
Volunteers' Discursive Strategies for Navigating the Market/Mission Tension3
When Volunteerability Intersects Employability: A Conceptual Typology of Occupation-Related Volunteering and Opportunities for Volunteering Research3
Compulsory Volunteer Experience in Singapore: Personality, Volunteer Motivation, and Continuance Intention to Volunteer3
Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers: An Umbrella Review3
VOLUNTAS Virtual Issue: Social Enterprise3
Unleashing the Antecedents and Consequences of Work Engagement in NGOs through the Lens of JD-R Model: Empirical Evidence from India3
Professional Volunteerism: Interwoven paradoxes in the management of Roskilde Festival3
Agile, Institutionalised, and Dependency-driven: Multifaceted Forms of the Collaboration Agency of Third-sector Organisations3
Global Civil Society Response to the COVID-19 Crisis3
Brian Cavanagh: Governing with Purpose: How to Lead a Brilliant Board—A Guide for Charity Trustees3
Liberating the Archive, Emancipating Philanthropy: Philanthropic Archival Layering as a Critical Historical Approach for Researching Voluntary Action in Marginalized Communities3
Episodic Volunteering in Sport Events: A Seven-Country Analysis3
Citizen Participation and Political Efficacy at the Grassroots Level: The Case of Residents’ Self-Governance Associations in Seoul, South Korea3
Impact, Equity, and Philanthropic Foundations: Can Randomized Controlled Trials Help Account for the Democratic Deficit?3
Individual Giving in Ghana: A Self-Determination Theory Approach to Giving3
Negotiating State-Civil Society Relations in Turkey: The Case of Refugee-Supporting Organizations3
The paths of solidarity economy: the emergence and maintenance of social policies through collective action3
Social Enterprises Within the Public Sector’s Purview: A Taxonomy-Based Study on South Korea3
Dealing with Endogeneity to Understand the Societal Impact of the Third Sector: Why Should We Care and What Can We Do about It?3
Esther Muddiman, Sally Power, and Chris Taylor, Civil Society and the Family, Policy Press, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2022, x + 203 pp. $33.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-14473555333
Exploring Participatory Grantmaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Current Landscape, Practices, and Power Dynamics3
The Complex Relationship between the Board and Web Transparency in Nonprofit Organizations3
From Home to Heaven: The Spatial Imaginaries of Nonprofit Organizations2
Repeat and Non-returning Volunteers: The Promise of Episodic Events for Volunteer Recruitment and Retention2
The Long-Term Effects of Matching Grants on Giving and Fundraising: A Longitudinal Study of Community Foundations in Indiana, USA2
Where I Belong: Identification Processes of Young Volunteers in Super-Diverse Cities2
Myths and Misconceptions About University Student Volunteering: Development and Perpetuation2
Capital, Inequality, and Volunteering2
Managing Digital Transformation for Social Good in Non-Profit Organizations: The Case of The Felix Project Zeroing Hunger in London2
Different Types, Different Reactions? How Civil Society Organizations Respond to Right-Wing Extremism2
Emancipatory Social Innovation: Within and Beyond the Innovative Society2
Romaniuk S., Under Siege: Counterterrorism and Civil Society in Hungary, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2021, Hardcover, pp. 260, Appendix, References, Index, 142 EUR2
Non-Profit Organizations and Co-Production: The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration2
Interviewing Elite Donors: Gaining Access, Developing Rapport and Dealing with the Dazzle2
Diasporic Philanthropy and the Sense of Belonging as an Expression of Diasporic Cultural Identity and Inclusion2
Warmth and Competence: How Social Stereotypes of Volunteers Versus Paid Workers Affect Client Trust2
Similar or Different? Downward Accountability Across Civil Society Organisational Forms2
Social Cohesion and Resilience Through Citizen Engagement: A Place-Based Approach2
Book Review: The Future of Third Sector Research. From Theory to Definitions, Classifications and Aggregation Towards New Research Paths. Andrea Bassi, Mario Aquino Alves, Carolyn Cordery (Eds.) Sprin2
Recruitment of Volunteers with Immigrant Backgrounds: The Impact of Structural and Individual Aspects2
Privatization of Early Childhood Education and Care in Nordic Countries2
The Challenges Faced by Professional Asylum Seeker-Related NGO Workers in Turkey2
Published only a few months ago, Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK: Lessons from the Pandemic is an edited collection of writings that chronicles the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on volunteerin2
The Professionalization of an Evolving Sector: Evidence from Watershed Councils2
Conceptualizing Policy Advocacy Effectiveness in NPO Research: A Scoping Review of Criteria and Indicators2
How Perceptions Matter: Organizational Vulnerability and Practices of Resilience in the Field of Migration2
What Factors Predict Charitable Assistance in China? The Role of Needs, Capital, and Contexts2
Influences of (Non)Engagement in Volunteering: First-Generation Immigrant Perceptions of Integration into US Society2
Moral Elites and the De-Paradoxification of Danish Social Policy Between Civil Society and State (1849–2022)2
Online Versus In-Person Associational Involvement and Informal Volunteering2
The Community Development in the Italian Third Sector2
George Kaloudis, Non-Governmental Organizations in the Global System, Lexington Books2
Schnable A.: Amateurs Without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion1
The Role of Nonprofit–Private Collaboration for Nonprofits’ Organizational Resilience1
Kinship Idioms and Care-Control Dynamics in Hungarian Co-ethnic Philanthropy1
The Experience of Epistemic Injustice in Volunteering: The Case of Community Organizations in Quebec1
Paradoxes in the Management of Timebanks in the UK’s Voluntary Sector: Discursive Bricolage and its Limits1
The Role of Civil Society in the Labour Market Integration of Migrants in Europe: An Introduction1
Portraying One or Many: Interaction of Number of Beneficiary and Donor’s Sense of Power on Donation Outcomes1
A Reflection on Critical Methodology: Accountability and Beneficiary Participative Evaluation in Third Sector Research1
Immigrant Volunteering: A Form of Citizenship from Below1
Opportunities and Obstacles: Consulting Civil Society Organizations and Human Trafficking Policy1
Securing Moral Authority: A Cross-National Analysis of Protestant Engagement in the Implementation of Morality Policies in Western Europe1
Maintaining the Ideals of Co-production During Rapid Digitalisation: A Comparative Case Study of Digital Restorative Services in Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Portugal1
Is Mandatory Community Service a Catalyst for Civic Growth or Fruitless Servitude?: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in South Korea1
Age Is But a Number? An Exploration of Age Differences in Episodic Volunteering1
Dean, J. (2020), The Good Glow–Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good. Bristol: Policy Press1
NGOs’ Approach to the Reintegration of Returned Female Labor Migrants in Bangladesh1
From Public Value to Adoption: Understanding the Mediators of ICT Use in Smart Cities1
The Rural/Urban Volunteering Divide1
Public Goods Provision: Is Provider Type Linked to Views of State Legitimacy?1
Paradoxes Within the Management of Volunteers1
Members Only? Exclusivity and Fractionalisation in the Malaysian Third Sector1
The Institutional Grammar: A Method for Coding Institutions and its Potential for Advancing Third Sector Research1
Ethnographies of Volunteering: Providing Nuance to the Links Between Volunteering and Development1
Third-Sector Organizations in Area-Based Initiatives: Instruments for Public Policies or Partners in Co-Production?1
Informal Volunteering and Immigrant Generations: Exploring Overlooked Dimensions in Immigrant Volunteering Research1
Substantive Legitimacy of Transformed Microfinance Organizations: Case Study from India1
Community Mobilization: Conventional Tactics in Unconventional Oil and Gas Development1
Are Donors Sensitive to the Price of Giving? A Meta-Analytical Assessment1
Dijkzeul, Dennis and Dirk Solomons (eds), “International Organizations Revisited: Agency and Pathology in a Multipolar World”1
Does Service Category Matter for Cross-Sectoral Collaboration?1
Predicting Volunteers’ Decisions to Stay in or Quit an NGO Using Neural Networks1
Critical Scholarship on Global Civil Society: NGO/CSO–Funder Relationships1
Challenges for Formal Organizations Engaging Volunteers During Regular and Crisis Times According to Polish and Italian Volunteer Coordinators1
Charitable Giving in Times of Covid-19: Do Crises Forward the Better or the Worse in Individuals?1
Development and Empirical Study of Religion Affiliated Nonprofit Organizations’ Brand Equity Questionnaire: Testing Brand Awareness and Trust Among Non-members1
Long-Term Dynamics of Voluntary Engagement: Differentiating Social Structural from Cohort and Period Effects1
Interpretive Engagement and the Study of Civil Society Networks: An Illustration of Interpretive Methods1
The Civic Identity of the Ethical Consumer1
Catherine E. Herrold: Delta Democracy—Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt Beyond1
A New Look at Job Demands, Resources, and Volunteers’ Intentions to Leave: The Role of Work–Home Interference and Burnout1
Growing Civil Society in Post-Soviet States: Does Money Help?1
Values, Emotions, and Knowledge in the Motivations Underlying Environmental Activism: The Case of Contested Green Spaces in Brussels1
The Importance of Methodological Pluralism in Nonprofit Finance1
Beth Kanter & Allison Fine: The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World1
The Influence of Gender Equality on Volunteering Among European Senior Citizens1
Using Model-Based Clustering to Improve Qualitative Inquiry: Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis, Latent Class Analysis, and Interpretive Transparency1
An Exploratory Analysis of Cross-National Variations in Prosocial Behaviors1
What Features Distinguish the Rural Nongovernmental Organisations that Implement Social Innovations? Evidence from Postcommunist Poland1
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