Administrative Theory and Praxis

The scholarly exploration of “volunteering” has mainly focused on identifying its antecedents or consequences, in order to facilitate the management and promotion of volunteering. In this dominant stream of research, the phenomenon of volunteering thus remains a “black box”—a taken-for-granted and fixed reality. The article sets out to open the black box of “volunteering” by not accepting it as a fixed, unproblematic object, but by exploring volunteering as a constructed phenomenon whose boundaries are managed and utilized by a variety of actors. To deconstruct volunteering, the article utilizes the Latourian notions of “hybridization” and “purification” as simultaneous and entangled mechanisms. We critically review the literature on “volunteering” and problematize the fundamental properties of the “pure” perception of “volunteering,” their hybridization and eventual purification. The article concludes by highlighting how the constant tension between hybridization and purification mechanisms is in fact what makes volunteering proliferate as a phenomenon that has an increasing public significance in contemporary society.

Itamar Y. Shachar

Johan von Essen

Lesley Hustinx

Administrative Theory & Praxis

Opening Up the “Black Box” of “Volunteering”: On Hybridization and Purification in Volunteering Research and Promotion

揭开“志愿服务”的“黑箱”：论志愿服务研究与推广中的杂糅与净化

Risma Abbas

Hijrah Lail

Armansyah Armansyah

Participatory Islamic finance: Ideals, contemporary practices, and innovations

参与式伊斯兰金融：理想、当代实践与创新

Andrew Burk

Care ethics and trauma-informed methods: Transforming the institution of policing

关怀伦理与创伤知情方法：转变警务机构

Monica Lea

Exploring administrative evil, the ethics of dissent, and guerrilla government in <i>The Good Place</i>

探索《善地》中的行政邪恶、异议伦理与游击政府

Amanda D. Clark

M. Blair Thomas

More than a game: Sport as a vehicle for public administration and management… an introduction

不仅仅是游戏：体育作为公共行政与管理的载体……引言

Caraline Feairheller

<i>Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports</i>

未竟的平等：《第九条》政策设计如何阻碍大学体育变革

ISSN	1084-1806, 1949-0461
h-index	18

Publication Information	Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2018，Proportion of original research papers: 0.00%，Self Citation Rate:N.A.， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%

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Opening Up the “Black Box” of “Volunteering”: On Hybridization and Purification in Volunteering Research and Promotion

Participatory Islamic finance: Ideals, contemporary practices, and innovations

Care ethics and trauma-informed methods: Transforming the institution of policing

Exploring administrative evil, the ethics of dissent, and guerrilla government in The Good Place

More than a game: Sport as a vehicle for public administration and management… an introduction

Participatory Islamic finance: Ideals, contemporary practices, and innovations

Care ethics and trauma-informed methods: Transforming the institution of policing

Exploring administrative evil, the ethics of dissent, and guerrilla government in The Good Place

More than a game: Sport as a vehicle for public administration and management… an introduction

Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports