Itamar Shachar

TL;DR: To deconstruct volunteering, the article utilizes the Latourian notions of “hybridization” and “purification” as simultaneous and entangled mechanisms, and critically review the literature on “volunteering” to problematize the fundamental properties of the “pure” perception of ‘Volunteering,’ their hybridization and eventual purification.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the recent emergence of "volunteering" as a publicly significant notion and practice and describe how the privileged character of this managerial activity is being successfully obscured through the representation of volunteering as an all-inclusive aspiration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the nonprofit case for corporate volunteering is complex, requiring a multi-level perspective on the outcomes for nonprofit organizations (NPOs), and they adopt an inductive research approach, conducting 39 exploratory semi-structured interviews with NPO staff.

TL;DR: Corporations are increasingly interested in promoting corporate volunteering, and their efforts are aligned with supportive nonprofits and public policies as mentioned in this paper, and the article seeks to understand the reaso...

TL;DR: In this paper, a pragmatic sociological approach is adopted to analyse the discursive processes that nurture or hinder these encounters and the corporate volunteering activities they aim to produce, which brings to the fore the nonprofit perspective by analysing 39 semi-structured interviews with Dutch and Belgian nonprofit professionals who were engaged in corporate volunteering coordination.