‘Putting a foot in the door’: volunteer hiring and organizational form
‘Putting a foot in the door’: volunteer hiring and organizational form
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.
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Vlassopoulos, Michael
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Vlassopoulos, Michael
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Vlassopoulos, Michael
(2015)
‘Putting a foot in the door’: volunteer hiring and organizational form.
The Manchester School, .
(doi:10.1111/manc.12139).
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.
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Accepted/In Press date: October 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 October 2015
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/385852
ISSN: 1463-6786
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