The official journal of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, Voluntas is an interdisciplinary international journal that aims to be the central forum for worldwide research in the area between the state, market, and household sectors. The journal combines full-length articles with shorter research notes (reflecting the latest developments in the field) and book reviews. Voluntas is essential reading for all those engaged in research into the Third Sector (voluntary and nonprofit organizations) including economists, lawyers, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and social and public policy analysts. It aims to present leading-edge academic argument around civil society issues in a style that is accessible to practitioners and policymakers.

Voluntas is the official journal of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, aiming to be the central forum for global research at the intersection of the state, market, and household sectors. This interdisciplinary international journal combines full-length articles with shorter research notes that reflect the latest developments in the field, as well as book reviews. Voluntas is essential reading for all those engaged in research into the Third Sector (voluntary and nonprofit organizations), including economists, lawyers, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and social and public policy analysts. The journal aims to present leading-edge academic arguments around civil society issues in a style that is accessible to practitioners and policymakers.

《Voluntas》是国际第三部门研究学会的官方期刊，旨在成为全球在国家、市场和家庭部门之间研究的核心论坛。这本跨学科的国际期刊结合了完整的研究文章、反映该领域最新发展的短篇研究笔记和书评。《Voluntas》是所有从事第三部门（志愿和非营利组织）研究的学者必读的期刊，包括经济学家、律师、政治科学家、心理学家、社会学家以及社会和公共政策分析师。期刊旨在以易于实践者和政策制定者理解的风格，呈现关于公民社会问题的前沿学术论点。

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Abstract Volunteering appears to be a mechanism that can contribute to societal inclusion. As nonprofit organizations continuously seek more volunteers, opportunities for volunteer inclusion seem limitless. We argue that, in reality, it is not that simple. Volunteer exclusion derives from the failure to seek, recruit, and place potential volunteers with antecedents predicting non-volunteering. This article focuses on the “sending-organization” in dual volunteer management. We look at sending-organizations, such as a corporation or school, that organizes volunteer opportunities for its participants in a “receiving-organization,” i.e., the organization where the volunteer service is performed. Based on qualitative data generated from semi-structured and vignette interviews, we explore the crucial role that gatekeepers at the sending-organization play in the inclusion and exclusion of volunteers in receiving-organizations. We identify three strategies for these sending-gatekeepers to enhance volunteer inclusion: encouraging, enabling, and enforcing.

Philine S. M. van Overbeeke

Stephanie A. Koolen-Maas

Lucas C. P. M. Meijs

Jeffrey L. Brudney

VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

You Shall (Not) Pass: Strategies for Third-Party Gatekeepers to Enhance Volunteer Inclusion

你应(不)通过：第三方守门人提升志愿者包容性的策略

Rebekka L. Erks

Joseph A. Allen

Lynn K. Harland

Kelly Prange

Do Volunteers Volunteer to do More at Work? The Relationship Between Volunteering, Engagement, and OCBs

志愿者是否会在工作中自愿做更多？志愿服务、参与度与组织公民行为的关系

Angela M. Eikenberry

Discourses of Volunteering and Civic Action in the USA

美国志愿服务与公民行动的话语

Adalbert Evers

Johan von Essen

Volunteering and Civic Action: Boundaries Blurring, Boundaries Redrawn

志愿服务与公民行动：界限模糊，界限重绘

Collaboration between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and public institutions, in accordance with the new public governance model, may contribute to actions by such organisations on behalf of both the co-production and co-construction of social services. The aim of this article is to assess the role of selected traits of NGO leaders in determining the chances of collaboration between NGOs and rural gmina offices in central, post-socialist Poland. The authors present the results of studies on selected subjective determinants of such collaboration, in which 104 leaders of NGOs from 29 rural gminas participated. Five independent research tools were implemented. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess the role of selected traits of NGO leaders in determining the potential for collaboration between NGOs and rural gmina offices. The final model indicates that the potential for collaboration between an NGO and a rural gmina office increases alongside higher levels of education, social competences and locus of control and decreased control ideology among NGO leaders. On this basis, the authors formulate practical conclusions concerning the education of leaders of rural NGOs in post-socialist Poland.

Katarzyna Karolina Zajda

Slawomir Pasikowski

Traits of Leaders of Rural Non-governmental Organisations as Predictors of Collaboration Between NGOs and Rural Gmina Offices: Voices from Central Poland

农村非政府组织领导者特质作为非政府组织与农村地区政府办公室合作关系的预测因素：来自波兰中部的声音

Trevor Meagher

Cleopatra Charles &amp; Margaret F. Sloan, Financial Leadership for the Arts: Sustainable Strategies for Creative Organizations, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2024, p. 270, Appendices, Bibliography, Index, $29.95

克利奥帕特拉·查尔斯与玛格丽特·F·斯隆，《艺术金融领导力：创意组织的可持续发展战略》，北卡罗来纳大学出版社，教堂山，2024年，第270页，附录，参考文献，索引，29.95美元

Michele Fugiel Gartner

The Canadian Non-Profit Sector: Neoliberalism and the Assault on Community Ted Richmond and John Shields

加拿大非营利部门：新自由主义与对社区的冲击 特德·里士满和约翰·希尔兹

This virtual issue focuses on organizational change in nonprofit organizations, as reflected in articles published in Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.As guest editors, our goal for this virtual issue was to explore contemporary developments regarding the role that organizational change plays within nonprofit organizational research.This overarching goal encompasses three aspects: (1) exploring the theoretical and conceptual frameworks and methodological considerations used when studying ''organizational change''; (2) presenting the selected articles and their key takeaways for organizational change literature in the nonprofit context; and (3) illuminating three themes and avenues for future research within the journal.

Hana Fehrenbach

Marlene Walk

Itay Greenspan

Organizational Change in Nonprofit Organizations

非营利组织中的组织变革

Abstract While environmental challenges are high on the public agenda, they have raised many questions concerning the ability of society and politics to cope with them. In liberal democracies, they challenge the traditional interplay between the state, business sector, and the various forces of civil society. Relating to the concepts of a more interactive and collaborative governance agenda, this study focuses on the local level of climate governance in municipalities and urban politics. It is based on material, documents, and interviews with representatives of public administration and civil society from seven major towns in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Our findings show progress in local governance, driven by municipal climate action plans, the recognition of climate action as a cross-cutting issue, and the influence of national and federal policies and programmes. The study identifies four main forms of revitalising and institutionalising intermediation across sectors: (1) public participation through various formats meant to give citizens a voice; (2) stakeholder involvement for co-designing measures and plans by partners and opponents most affected; (3) strategies of influencing public opinion and the prevailing discourse on climate politics; and (4) forms of co-production in policy implementation. While the impact of these forms of conflict management, bridge-building, or even cooperation may vary, they altogether define the nature of local interactive governance and its capacities for promoting sustainable development and democracy.

Verena Schmid

Local Climate Governance: Towards more Interactive Practices and Settings?

地方气候治理：迈向更多互动实践与环境？

Abstract Social enterprises (SEs) have emerged throughout the world to address societal challenges through market-based activities and innovation. Research has focused on how SEs manage the tensions arising from the combination of social-welfare and market logics, neglecting the institutional complexity that arises in authoritarian regimes where the state plays a dominant role. Based on the institutional logics perspective and interview data of 42 SE leaders in China, we find that key tensions arise from the state and social-welfare logics and that state logic (re)configures the social–market relationships to be compatible. Chinese SEs employed depoliticization and localization to adapt to this unique form of institutional complexity in their social innovation efforts. This study advances research on SEs, institutional complexity, and hybrid organizing.

Jiawei Sophia Fu

Shipeng Yan

Institutional Complexity and Social Innovation: The Case of Chinese Social Enterprises

制度复杂性与社会创新：中国社会企业的案例研究

Abbreviation	Voluntas
Journal Impact	2.26
Quartiles(Global)	SOCIAL ISSUES(Q1)

ISSN	0957-8765, 1573-7888
h-index	67

Publication Information	Publisher: Springer New York，Publishing cycle: 6 issues per year，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1990，Proportion of original research papers: 97.96%，Self Citation Rate:17.40%， Gold OA Rate: 32.30%
Average review cycle	网友分享经验：13 Weeks

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