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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Changing Space for NGOs: Civil Society in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes	70
Social Enterprise Performance: The Role of Market and Social Entrepreneurship Orientations	46
Building Bridges: Social Movements and Civil Society in Times of Crisis	42
Mapping the Field of Donation-Based Crowdfunding for Charitable Causes: Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework	40
Transcription and Qualitative Methods: Implications for Third Sector Research	40
How and Why Do Social and Sustainable Initiatives Scale? A Systematic Review of the Literature on Social Entrepreneurship and Grassroots Innovation	30
Do Professionals Take Over? Professionalisation and Membership Influence in Civil Society Organisations	20
You Thought That This Would Be Easy? Seeking an Understanding of Episodic Volunteering	19
Humanitarian Relief and Development Organizations’ Stakeholder Targeting Communication on Social Media and Beyond	18
COVID-19-Related Studies of Nonprofit Management: A Critical Review and Research Agenda	18
Person–Organization Fit and Commitment to Volunteer Organizations	16
Food Banking and Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries	16
Rediscovering the Cooperative Enterprise: A Systematic Review of Current Topics and Avenues for Future Research	16
Inequality in Volunteering: Building a New Research Front	16
Does Transformational Leadership Better Predict Work-Related Outcomes Than Transactional Leadership in the NPO Context? Evidence from Italy	16
Exhibiting Inclusion: An Examination of Race, Ethnicity, and Museum Participation	15
The Moderating Effect of Countries’ Development on the Characterization of the Social Entrepreneur: An Empirical Analysis with GEM Data	13
The Global Study of Philanthropic Behavior	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	12
Nourishing the Social Innovation Debate with the “Social Technology” South American Research Tradition	12
Exploring Accountability in Social Enterprise: Priorities, Practicalities, and Legitimacy	12
The Evolution of Third Sector Research and the Journal Voluntas: The Editors’ Impressions	12
Organizational Commitment in the Nonprofit Sector and the Underlying Impact of Stakeholders and Organizational Support	12
Do Nonprofit and For-Profit Social Enterprises Differ in Financing?	12

Marginal Players? The Third Sector and Employability Services for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK	11
The Rural/Urban Volunteering Divide	11
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
Explaining the Varieties of Volunteering in Europe: A Capability Approach	10
Mapping Civic Engagement in Later Life: A Scoping Review of Gerontological Definitions and Typology Proposal	10
Do Women Engage in Pro-environmental Behaviours in the Public Sphere Due to Social Expectations? The Effects of Social Norm-Based Persuasive Messages	10
Attribution of Community Emergency Volunteer Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Community Residents in Shanghai, China	10
When Nonprofit Organizations Meet Information and Communication Technologies: How Organizational Culture Influences the Use of Traditional, Digital, and Sharing Media	10
Reciprocal Engagement and NGO Policy Influence on the Local State in China	9
Corporate Foundations as Hybrid Organizations: A Systematic Review of Literature	9
The Role of Nonprofit–Private Collaboration for Nonprofits’ Organizational Resilience	9
Inequality in Interaction: Equalising the Helper–Recipient Relationship in the Refugee Solidarity Movement	9
Decomposing the Effect of Commercialization on Nonprofit Donations	9
Representing the ‘Voice’ of Patients: How Third Sector Organisations Conceptualise and Communicate Experiential Knowledge in Health Service Development	9
Who Is in Charge? Social Inequality in Different Fields of Volunteering	9
Collaboration, Co-Optation or Navigation? The Role of Civil Society in Disaster Governance in India	9
Encouraging a Spatial Perspective in Third Sector Studies: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Regression Analysis	9
Do Volunteers Volunteer to do More at Work? The Relationship Between Volunteering, Engagement, and OCBs	9
Who are Volunteers in Urban China?	8
Charity Social Media Marketing and Its Influence on Charity Brand Image, Brand Trust, and Donation Intention	8
Transforming Nonprofit Organisations into Social Enterprises: An Experience-Based Follow-Up Study	8
Toward an Understanding of the Role of Human Resources in Cultivating a Climate for Innovation in Nonprofit and Public Organizations	8
Civil Society in ‘Politics’ and ‘Development’ in African Hybrid Regimes: The Kenyan Case	8
Professionalization and Hybridization Dynamics of Social Enterprises	8
Civil Society Organizations and Labour Market Integration for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Greece	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
Interest Groups, NGOs or Civil Society Organisations? The Framing of Non-State Actors in the EU	8
More Money, More Problems? Resource Dependence and Professionalization of Non-governmental Social Services Organizations in Southern Spain	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	7
Financial Resilience, Income Dependence and Organisational Survival in UK Charities	7
Immigrant Volunteering: A Form of Citizenship from Below	7
Practitioner Niches in the (Penal) Voluntary Sector: Perspectives from Management and the Frontlines	7
Interviewing Elite Donors: Gaining Access, Developing Rapport and Dealing with the Dazzle	7
Volunteerism and Burnout: Does Satisfaction of Motives for Volunteering Protect Against Symptoms?	7
Civic Service and Social Class: The Case of Young Arab Women in Israel	7
Does Implicit Color Bias Reduce Giving? Learnings from Fundraising Survey Using Implicit Association Test (IAT)	7
Ineffectiveness, Poor Coordination, and Corruption in Humanitarian Aid: The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon	7
Illustrating the Value of Critical Methodologies Through Third-sector Gender Studies: A Case for Pluralism	7
Volunteering Hierarchies in the Global South: Remuneration and Livelihoods	7
Transparency and Resource Allocation of Grassroots Nonprofits in China	6
The Social Production of Invited Spaces: Toward an Understanding of the Invitational Character of Spaces for Citizens’ Initiatives	6
Seeing Through the Logical Framework	6
Understanding the Microfoundations of Government–Civil Society Relations	6
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
Episodic Volunteering in Sport Events: A Seven-Country Analysis	6
Minding the Gaps: The Role of Finnish Civil Society Organizations in the Labour Market Integration of Migrants	6
Computational Social Science for Nonprofit Studies: Developing a Toolbox and Knowledge Base for the Field	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
Basic Psychological Need Profiles and Correlates in Volunteers for a National Sports Event	6
Balancing Legitimacy in a Context of Nonprofit-Business Hybridity: The Case of the Flemish Wellbeing and Social Economy Sector	6
Comparing Transnational and Communal Diaspora Philanthropies Among Temporary Migrant Workers: The Case of the Filipino Community in Israel	6
NGO Failure: A Theoretical Synthesis	6
The Systematic Literature Review: Advantages and Applications in Nonprofit Scholarship	6
Panel Data Analysis: A Guide for Nonprofit Studies	6
“I have Felt so Much Joy”: The Role of Emotions in Community Sponsorship of Refugees	6
Repeat and Non-returning Volunteers: The Promise of Episodic Events for Volunteer Recruitment and Retention	5
Not-for-Profit Performance Reporting: A Reflection on Methods, Results and Implications for Practice and Regulation	5
The Influence of Gender Equality on Volunteering Among European Senior Citizens	5
What Works to Increase Charitable Donations? A Meta-Review with Meta-Meta-Analysis	5
Compulsory Volunteer Experience in Singapore: Personality, Volunteer Motivation, and Continuance Intention to Volunteer	5
Do Giving Circles Democratize Philanthropy? Donor Identity and Giving to Historically Marginalized Groups	5
The Community Asset Transfer of Leisure Facilities in the UK: A Review and Research Agenda	5
Terrorists or Persecuted? The Portrayal of Islamic Nonprofits in US Newspapers Post 9/11	5
The Scarring Effect of the 2008 Economic Crisis: Growth and Growth Decline in Austria’s Nonprofit Social Services Sector	5
Organisational Identity of Social Enterprises: A Taxonomic Approach	5
Cause-Related Marketing in the Digital Era: How Enterprises Can Deal with International Campaigns in Individualist Versus Collectivist Countries	5
Who Needs the Experts? The Politics and Practices of Alternative Humanitarianism and Its Relationship to NGOs	5
Rainbow Research: Challenges and Recommendations for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Survey Design	5
‘Young, Fun, and Free:’ Episodic Volunteers in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania	5
Taking Stock on How We Research the Third Sector: Diversity, Pluralism, and Openness	5
Government/Foundation Relations: A Conceptual Framework and Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government’s Partnership Efforts	5
Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up	5
Understanding Policy Instruments for Steering Nonprofit Organizations in China: Only Carrots and Sticks?	5
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	5
Effects of Government Contracting of Services on NGOs in China: Convergence and Divergence with International Experience	5
Nonprofit-as-supplement: Examining the Link Between Nonprofit Financial Support and Public Service Quality	5
For the Love of Art? Episodic Volunteering at Cultural Events	5
Determinants of Volunteering Within a Social Housing Community	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
The Impact of Public Assistance Use on Charitable Giving: Evidence from the USA and China	4
Knowledge Sharing for Sustainable Development: An Examination of Practices in Local-Level NGOs in Tamil Nadu, India	4
Walking on a Tightrope: Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society Organizations Working with Refugees and Migrants in Turkey	4
Those Who Pay the Piper Calls the Tune: Meta-Organisation and Capacities of the Third Sector in Migration Policies	4
Scientific Production on the Social Economy: A Review of Worldwide Research	4
You Shall (Not) Pass: Strategies for Third-Party Gatekeepers to Enhance Volunteer Inclusion	4
Emancipatory Social Innovation: Within and Beyond the Innovative Society	4
Defining and Estimating the Scope of U.S. Faith-Based International Humanitarian Aid Organizations	4
Age Is But a Number? An Exploration of Age Differences in Episodic Volunteering	4
Elderly Volunteering in Europe: The Relationship Between Volunteering and Quality of Life Depends on Volunteering Rates	4
Social Enterprises and Public Value: A Multiple-Case Study Assessment	4
Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers: An Umbrella Review	4
Nonprofit Financial Resilience: Recovery from Natural Disasters	4
How Does an Authoritarian State Co-opt Its Social Scientists Studying Civil Society?	4
How a Nonprofitness Orientation Influences Collective Civic Action: The Effects of Civic Engagement and Political Participation	4
Exploring Donor Influence and Public Engagement: Computational and Thematic Analyses of Social Media Messages	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
Chinese NPOs in Service Contracting at the Community Level: Challenges and Strategies	4
Referee, Sponsor or Coach: How Does the Government Harness the Development of Social Enterprises? A Case Study of Chengdu, China	4
Institutional Constraints, Market Competition, and Revenue Strategies: Evidence from Canadian Social Enterprises	4
Avoiding Intimacy—An Ethnographic Study of Beneficent Boundaries in Virtual Voluntary Social Work	4