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Reasons for not volunteering: overcoming boundaries to attract volunteers

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  • Jurgen Willems
  • Sarah Dury

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Research on volunteering has mainly focused on the explanatory demographics and functional motives to volunteer, but little is known about the reasons that people might have not to volunteer. However, these reasons need more academic attention, as they form the barriers that organizations have to overcome when attracting new volunteers. We examine a sample of 1248 respondents on whether they volunteer, are interested in volunteering, or have no interest to volunteer. We verify whether demographic differences exist between these groups. By means of an exploratory factor analysis, we analyze the reasons not to volunteer for those who have no interest to volunteer. This complements earlier research by focusing on the barriers that people might have, instead of the benefits of volunteering that have extensively been documented.

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  • Jurgen Willems & Sarah Dury, 2017. "Reasons for not volunteering: overcoming boundaries to attract volunteers," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(11-12), pages 726-745, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:37:y:2017:i:11-12:p:726-745
    DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2017.1318381
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    1. Soraia Cruz & Marisa Roriz Ferreira & Ana Borges & Beatriz Casais, 2023. "Barriers to volunteering in the field of intellectual disability: a cluster analysis," International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, Springer;International Association of Public and Non-Profit Marketing, vol. 20(2), pages 341-366, June.
    2. María Isabel Saz-Gil & José Paulo Cosenza & Anabel Zardoya-Alegría & Ana I. Gil-Lacruz, 2020. "Exploring Corporate Social Responsibility under the Background of Sustainable Development Goals: A Proposal to Corporate Volunteering," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-21, June.
    3. Jacobien Niebuur & Aart C. Liefbroer & Nardi Steverink & Nynke Smidt, 2019. "The Dutch Comparative Scale for Assessing Volunteer Motivations among Volunteers and Non-Volunteers: An Adaptation of the Volunteer Functions Inventory," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(24), pages 1-16, December.
    4. Rodríguez-Rad, Carlos & Sánchez del Rio-Vázquez, María-Elena, 2023. "The relevance of participation Behavior, organizational Commitment, and attitudinal loyalty to the management of professional associations," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).

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