The empirical economic literature covers many different forms of pro-social behaviour going
from anonymous charitable contributions to caring for an ageing parent or buying Christmas …

The use of volunteers in hospitals has been an age-old practice. This nonmarket community
involvement is a distinctive aspect of North American life. Hospitals may be attracted to …

Using gift exchange theory to explain the growing trend of employers offering employer‐
supported volunteering (ESV) benefits, this article discusses the creation of exchange …

How do nonprofit organizations add value to communities? How can they create social
capital out of the money invested in them? Can nonprofits and cooperatives measure their …

As world income and manufacturing productiv-ity has risen and as the information economy
has expanded, the service sector has come to dominate employment in the United States …

Abstract In Bowling Alone Robert Putnam argues that the passing of the “long civic
generation” whose values were molded by the Depression and the Second World War, has …

Introduction: Volunteering is a way for community participation and involving local social
capital. Volunteering has potential to enhance wellbeing and reducing health inequalities …

This paper explores individual motives for volunteering. The analysis is based on the
interpretation of volunteering as a consumption good (consumption model) or as a mean to …

Sociological theory suggests two reasons that volunteering runs in families. The first is that
parents act as role models. The second is that parents who volunteer pass on the …

The literature on the determinants of volunteering for nonprofit organizations is highly
complex, and noconceptual model has received general support (Winniford, Carpenter, and …