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- Title
'Putting a Foot in the Door': Volunteer Hiring and Organizational Form.
- Authors
Vlassopoulos, Michael
- Abstract
Volunteering often acts as a stepping stone into a paid position. This paper provides an explanation for the fact that non-profit employers are uniquely able to attract volunteers with social concerns and career aspirations and for the related observation that non-profits figure prominently in mission-related activities. The theory is predicated on that-by committing to not distributing profits-non-profit incorporation relaxes the incentive constraint that employers face when implicitly contracting with volunteers. The not-for-profit commitment is shown to be effective only in activities where producers, who can choose to be for-profit or non-profit, care about the level of the service being provided.
- Subjects
VOLUNTEER service -- Social aspects; EMPLOYERS; EMPLOYABILITY; ECONOMICS; NONPROFIT sector; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Manchester School (1463-6786), 2017, Vol 85, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
1463-6786
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/manc.12139