Role Commitment and Role Maintenance Strategies: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Volunteering.
There are numerous reports on the rates of attrition among volunteers as a persistent challenge for organizations. In explaining volunteer attrition, researchers have predominantly: 1) provided an individualistic account of volunteering; 2) overlooked the interactional dimension of volunteer work an...
| Published in: | Canadian Journal of Nonprofit & Social Economy Research / Revue canadienne de recherche sur les OSBL et l'économie sociale Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 23 - 38 |
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Spring2021
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