OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Voluntas is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Changing Space for NGOs: Civil Society in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes	75
Social Enterprise Performance: The Role of Market and Social Entrepreneurship Orientations	49
Transcription and Qualitative Methods: Implications for Third Sector Research	49
You Thought That This Would Be Easy? Seeking an Understanding of Episodic Volunteering	22
COVID-19-Related Studies of Nonprofit Management: A Critical Review and Research Agenda	19
Does Transformational Leadership Better Predict Work-Related Outcomes Than Transactional Leadership in the NPO Context? Evidence from Italy	19
Rediscovering the Cooperative Enterprise: A Systematic Review of Current Topics and Avenues for Future Research	18
Inequality in Volunteering: Building a New Research Front	17
The Rural/Urban Volunteering Divide	15
The Global Study of Philanthropic Behavior	15
Exhibiting Inclusion: An Examination of Race, Ethnicity, and Museum Participation	15
Organizational Commitment in the Nonprofit Sector and the Underlying Impact of Stakeholders and Organizational Support	14
Nourishing the Social Innovation Debate with the “Social Technology” South American Research Tradition	13
Resilience in Arts and Cultural Nonprofit Organizations: An Analysis of the Covid-19 Crisis in France	13
Contemporary Philanthropy in the Spotlight: Pushing the Boundaries of Research on a Global and Contested Social Practice	13
When Nonprofit Organizations Meet Information and Communication Technologies: How Organizational Culture Influences the Use of Traditional, Digital, and Sharing Media	13
Charity Social Media Marketing and Its Influence on Charity Brand Image, Brand Trust, and Donation Intention	12
The Evolution of Third Sector Research and the Journal Voluntas: The Editors’ Impressions	12
Explaining the Varieties of Volunteering in Europe: A Capability Approach	12
How to be Resilient? Local Philanthropy as a Collective Response to Natural Disasters	11
The Use of 360° Video by International Humanitarian Aid Organizations to Spread Social Messages and Increase Engagement	11
Corporate Foundations as Hybrid Organizations: A Systematic Review of Literature	11
Representing the ‘Voice’ of Patients: How Third Sector Organisations Conceptualise and Communicate Experiential Knowledge in Health Service Development	11
Mapping Civic Engagement in Later Life: A Scoping Review of Gerontological Definitions and Typology Proposal	11
Do Women Engage in Pro-environmental Behaviours in the Public Sphere Due to Social Expectations? The Effects of Social Norm-Based Persuasive Messages	11

Marginal Players? The Third Sector and Employability Services for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK	11
Encouraging a Spatial Perspective in Third Sector Studies: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Regression Analysis	10
Who Is in Charge? Social Inequality in Different Fields of Volunteering	10
Collaboration, Co-Optation or Navigation? The Role of Civil Society in Disaster Governance in India	10
Volunteerism and Burnout: Does Satisfaction of Motives for Volunteering Protect Against Symptoms?	10
Transforming Nonprofit Organisations into Social Enterprises: An Experience-Based Follow-Up Study	10
Decomposing the Effect of Commercialization on Nonprofit Donations	10
Do Volunteers Volunteer to do More at Work? The Relationship Between Volunteering, Engagement, and OCBs	10
Attribution of Community Emergency Volunteer Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Community Residents in Shanghai, China	10
The Role of Nonprofit–Private Collaboration for Nonprofits’ Organizational Resilience	9
Interest Groups, NGOs or Civil Society Organisations? The Framing of Non-State Actors in the EU	9
Inequality in Interaction: Equalising the Helper–Recipient Relationship in the Refugee Solidarity Movement	9
Reciprocal Engagement and NGO Policy Influence on the Local State in China	9
Toward an Understanding of the Role of Human Resources in Cultivating a Climate for Innovation in Nonprofit and Public Organizations	8
Ineffectiveness, Poor Coordination, and Corruption in Humanitarian Aid: The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon	8
Illustrating the Value of Critical Methodologies Through Third-sector Gender Studies: A Case for Pluralism	8
What Works to Increase Charitable Donations? A Meta-Review with Meta-Meta-Analysis	8
Collective Deliberations and Hearts on Fire: Experiential Knowledge Among Entrepreneurs and Organisations in the Mental Health Service User Movement	8
Reconsidering Volunteering: Individual Change as a Result of Doing Good for Others	8
Who are Volunteers in Urban China?	8
Immigrant Volunteering: A Form of Citizenship from Below	8
More Money, More Problems? Resource Dependence and Professionalization of Non-governmental Social Services Organizations in Southern Spain	8
Practitioner Niches in the (Penal) Voluntary Sector: Perspectives from Management and the Frontlines	8
Minding the Gaps: The Role of Finnish Civil Society Organizations in the Labour Market Integration of Migrants	8
Co-producing Public Welfare Services with Vulnerable Citizens: A Case Study of a Danish-Somali Women’s Association Co-producing Crime Prevention with the Local Authorities	8
Compulsory Volunteer Experience in Singapore: Personality, Volunteer Motivation, and Continuance Intention to Volunteer	8
Civil Society Organizations and Labour Market Integration for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Greece	8
Panel Data Analysis: A Guide for Nonprofit Studies	7
Interviewing Elite Donors: Gaining Access, Developing Rapport and Dealing with the Dazzle	7
Volunteering Hierarchies in the Global South: Remuneration and Livelihoods	7
Does Implicit Color Bias Reduce Giving? Learnings from Fundraising Survey Using Implicit Association Test (IAT)	7
Computational Social Science for Nonprofit Studies: Developing a Toolbox and Knowledge Base for the Field	7
Repeat and Non-returning Volunteers: The Promise of Episodic Events for Volunteer Recruitment and Retention	7
Balancing Legitimacy in a Context of Nonprofit-Business Hybridity: The Case of the Flemish Wellbeing and Social Economy Sector	7
The Systematic Literature Review: Advantages and Applications in Nonprofit Scholarship	7
Financial Resilience, Income Dependence and Organisational Survival in UK Charities	7
Episodic Volunteering in Sport Events: A Seven-Country Analysis	7
Does the Media’s Anti-Western Bias Affect its Portrayal of NGOs in the Muslim World? Assessing Newspapers in Pakistan	6
How Billionaires Explain Their Philanthropy: A Mixed-Method Analysis of the Giving Pledge Letters	6
Basic Psychological Need Profiles and Correlates in Volunteers for a National Sports Event	6
NGO Failure: A Theoretical Synthesis	6
Comparing Transnational and Communal Diaspora Philanthropies Among Temporary Migrant Workers: The Case of the Filipino Community in Israel	6
Understanding the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Provision of Social Services in China: An Exploratory Study	6
Treacherous Elasticity, Callous Boundaries: Aspiring Volunteer Initiatives in the Field of Refugee Support in Rotterdam	6
Transparency and Resource Allocation of Grassroots Nonprofits in China	6
Cause-Related Marketing in the Digital Era: How Enterprises Can Deal with International Campaigns in Individualist Versus Collectivist Countries	6
The Social Production of Invited Spaces: Toward an Understanding of the Invitational Character of Spaces for Citizens’ Initiatives	6
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up	6
How Perceptions Matter: Organizational Vulnerability and Practices of Resilience in the Field of Migration	6
“I have Felt so Much Joy”: The Role of Emotions in Community Sponsorship of Refugees	6

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	6
Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers: An Umbrella Review	6
Seeing Through the Logical Framework	6
Exploring Donor Influence and Public Engagement: Computational and Thematic Analyses of Social Media Messages	6
A Spectrum of Open Social Innovation Within Social Enterprise	5
Who Needs the Experts? The Politics and Practices of Alternative Humanitarianism and Its Relationship to NGOs	5
Referee, Sponsor or Coach: How Does the Government Harness the Development of Social Enterprises? A Case Study of Chengdu, China	5
The Community Asset Transfer of Leisure Facilities in the UK: A Review and Research Agenda	5
Government/Foundation Relations: A Conceptual Framework and Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government’s Partnership Efforts	5
Not-for-Profit Performance Reporting: A Reflection on Methods, Results and Implications for Practice and Regulation	5
The Scarring Effect of the 2008 Economic Crisis: Growth and Growth Decline in Austria’s Nonprofit Social Services Sector	5
Knowledge Sharing for Sustainable Development: An Examination of Practices in Local-Level NGOs in Tamil Nadu, India	5
Do Giving Circles Democratize Philanthropy? Donor Identity and Giving to Historically Marginalized Groups	5
‘Young, Fun, and Free:’ Episodic Volunteers in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania	5
Scientific Production on the Social Economy: A Review of Worldwide Research	5
For the Love of Art? Episodic Volunteering at Cultural Events	5
Defining and Estimating the Scope of U.S. Faith-Based International Humanitarian Aid Organizations	5
Elderly Volunteering in Europe: The Relationship Between Volunteering and Quality of Life Depends on Volunteering Rates	5
The Influence of Gender Equality on Volunteering Among European Senior Citizens	5
Nonprofit-as-supplement: Examining the Link Between Nonprofit Financial Support and Public Service Quality	5
Effects of Government Contracting of Services on NGOs in China: Convergence and Divergence with International Experience	5
Rainbow Research: Challenges and Recommendations for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Survey Design	5
Taking Stock on How We Research the Third Sector: Diversity, Pluralism, and Openness	5
Avoiding Intimacy—An Ethnographic Study of Beneficent Boundaries in Virtual Voluntary Social Work	5
Terrorists or Persecuted? The Portrayal of Islamic Nonprofits in US Newspapers Post 9/11	5
Understanding Policy Instruments for Steering Nonprofit Organizations in China: Only Carrots and Sticks?	5
Organisational Identity of Social Enterprises: A Taxonomic Approach	5
Maintaining the Ideals of Co-production During Rapid Digitalisation: A Comparative Case Study of Digital Restorative Services in Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Portugal	4
Age Is But a Number? An Exploration of Age Differences in Episodic Volunteering	4
Capital, Inequality, and Volunteering	4
Chinese NPOs in Service Contracting at the Community Level: Challenges and Strategies	4
What Determines the Success of Charitable Crowdfunding Campaigns? Evidence from China During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Those Who Pay the Piper Calls the Tune: Meta-Organisation and Capacities of the Third Sector in Migration Policies	4
Institutional Constraints, Market Competition, and Revenue Strategies: Evidence from Canadian Social Enterprises	4
Accountability Theory in Nonprofit Research: Using Governance Theories to Categorize Dichotomies	4
Determinants of Volunteering Within a Social Housing Community	4
You Shall (Not) Pass: Strategies for Third-Party Gatekeepers to Enhance Volunteer Inclusion	4
Restricted Revenues and Nonprofit Service Delivery: The Roles of Financial Discretion	4
Warmth and Competence: How Social Stereotypes of Volunteers Versus Paid Workers Affect Client Trust	4
Informal Volunteering and Socialization Effects: Examining Modelling and Encouragement by Parents and Partner	4
Anxiety and Ambivalence: NGO–Activist Partnership in China’s Environmental Protests, 2007–2016	4
Spatial Differences in the Founding Pattern of Nongovernmental Organizations and Not-for-Profit Companies	4
Social Enterprises and Public Value: A Multiple-Case Study Assessment	4
COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space	4
Reintermediating Voluntary Action: The Path-Dependent Pluralization of the Italian Volunteering Field	4
Unleashing the Antecedents and Consequences of Work Engagement in NGOs through the Lens of JD-R Model: Empirical Evidence from India	4
Long-Term Dynamics of Voluntary Engagement: Differentiating Social Structural from Cohort and Period Effects	4
Speaking Acquaintances or Helpers in Need: Participation in Civic Associations and Individual Social Capital	4
Political Label and Selective Information Disclosure: Evidence from Charity Foundations in China	4
Framing Effects, Procedural Fairness, and the Nonprofit Managers’ Reactions to Job Layoffs in Response to the Economic Shock of the COVID-19 Crisis	4
The Impact of Public Assistance Use on Charitable Giving: Evidence from the USA and China	4
Growing the Volunteer Pool: Identifying Non-Volunteers Most Likely to Volunteer	4
Walking on a Tightrope: Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society Organizations Working with Refugees and Migrants in Turkey	4
NGO as Sympathy Vendor or Public Advocate? A Case Study of NGOs’ Participation in Internet Fundraising Campaigns in China	4
Indigenous Peoples and Third Sector Research: Indigenous Data Sovereignty as a Framework to Improve Research Practices	4
Emancipatory Social Innovation: Within and Beyond the Innovative Society	4
Nonprofit Financial Resilience: Recovery from Natural Disasters	4
How Does an Authoritarian State Co-opt Its Social Scientists Studying Civil Society?	4
Research Implications of Electronic Filing of Nonprofit Information: Lessons from the United States’ Internal Revenue Service Form 990 Series	4
How a Nonprofitness Orientation Influences Collective Civic Action: The Effects of Civic Engagement and Political Participation	4