Benjamin Gidron
Biographic Data
| ID | 4400136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Gidron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gidron |
| SIGNATURE | GIDRON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2148-7650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Israel's civil society 2023 from protest to aid provision – a serving elite perspective
The year 2023 in Israel started with illiberal constitutional change efforts by the new right-wing government and concluded with a brutal attack by Hamas terrorists and the subsequent war. Both occurrences galvanized two massive surges of civil society activism. The first was a mass protest that impeded the government's undemocratic legislation. The second was a large-scale mobilization to support a variety of populations affected by the war, pro…
Encroachment and Reaction of Civil Society in Non-liberal Democracies: The Case of Israel and the New Israel Fund
Recent decades have seen a major political shift in many nations, manifested in democratic regression, rise of populist non-liberal democracies, resurgence of extreme right, infractions against democratic watchdogs, and increasing nationalism and unilateralism. A central manifestation of this process is the active encroachment by governments on civil society, and particularly on its liberal elements. These manifestations allegedly emanate from re…
A social welfare perspective of market‐oriented social enterprises
The article analyses market‐oriented social enterprises from a social welfare perspective, within the context of the innate conflict between business and welfare orientations. After defining the concept of market‐oriented social enterprises and presenting some successful examples on such entities that employ different marginalised populations, particularly people with disabilities, the article asks three interrelated questions: (i) What policy en…
Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups: International and Multicultural Perspectives
Market-Oriented Social Enterprises Employing People with Disabilities: A Participants’ Perspective
The paper focuses on the participants’ perspective of social enterprises, particularly those providing employment for a variety of handicapped populations. It argues that when dealing with such populations with the goal of integrating them into society, contrary to present policy and practice, a market orientation of the organizations employing them, provides, under certain circumstances and with certain populations, advantages and opportunities …
Social Enterprises: An Organizational Perspective
Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin
Policy Challenges in Light of the Emerging Phenomenon of Social Businesses
The paper focuses on the new phenomenon of social businesses and analyzes their unique attributes and their variegated contributions to those working in them and to society. Organizationally and conceptually, these hybrid entities can be placed between the non-profit and the business organization form as they are allowed to distribute profits but not to the owner/investor of the firm. The paper places such entities within the larger context of so…
Commentary on Beyes & Jäger, and Galaskiewicz: A rebuttal
Understanding multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations: The contributions of theories on civil society, social movements and non-profit organizations
The paper offers a theoretical framework to study the conditions that lead to the emergence of multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations and the factors that influence their ability to mobilize resources and enlist commitment. These organizations are characterized by four interrelated attributes: (a) they set out as their mission to uphold and promote cultural values that are typically at variant with dominant and institutionalized values; (b)…
The Israeli Third Sector: Between Welfare State and Civil Society
Through a New Lens: The Third Sector and Israeli Society
THE TASK OF STUDYING the third sector 1 in Israel is difficult. In addition to the regular confusion and misconceptions abundant in this field of research, until recently Israel's third sector had been absent from both the research community's agenda and Israeli public discourse. Moreover, the third sector has not been recognized as a distinct entity in Israel. The delineation of sectors has been rather ambiguous; therefore, the concept of a thir…
Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine
Peace and conflict‐resolution organizations (P/CROs) are civil society organizations dedicated to resolving protracted conflicts. Teams of local researchers coordinated by an international advisory board, investigate the characteristics, roles, similarities, and differences of P/CROs in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine in the last third of the twentieth century. Comparative research of this sort throws up definitional, concept…
Peace and Conflict Resolution Organizations in Three Protracted Conflicts: Structures, Resources and Ideology
Guided by organizational and social movement theories, this study compares the structures, resource bases, ideologies, and strategies of nongovernmental organizations engaged in peace and conflict resolution (P/CROs) in three regions with extended violent conflicts: Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. Qualitative content analysis techniques are used to analyze 27 detailed case reports. We analyze the funding patterns and structu…
The evolution of Israel's third sector: The role of predominant ideology
The article presents a case study of the evolution of Israel's third sector. It uses quantitative data on the economic structure of the sector, as well as historical data on the changes it has undergone in the past 80 years or so. This period is subdivided into three eras, each characterised by a different dominant ideology within which third sector organisations develop. The analysis emphasises the interplay between the dominant ideology and the…
Exploring the Nonprofit Motive (Or: (What's in it for You?)
Self-Help Groups and Human Service Organizations: An Interorganizational Perspective
In this article, we examine the conditions that give rise to relations between human service organizations and self-help groups and the forms that such relations may assume. Using an interorganizational perspective, we develop a model that compares self-help groups and human service organizations. This model is used to derive propositions about the conditions that lead to interorganizational relations between these two kinds of social organizatio…
Cross‐cultural perspectives on self‐help groups: Comparison between participants and nonparticipants in Israel and the United States
Peer Reviewed
Perspectives on the Small Community: Humanistic Views for Practitioners . Emilia E. Martinez-Brawley
Stress and coping patterns of parents of the mentally ill in Israel
Stress and coping patterns of participants and non-participants in self-help groups for parents of the mentally ill
Self-Help Awareness in Israel: An Expression of Structural Changes and Expanding Citizen Participation
Observers of the Israeli society in the 1950s and 1960s have characterized its political structure as centralistic, with a very large public sector and with relatively little activity taking place outside it or without its consent. There are indications that since the early 1970s, certain structural changes have been taking place, whereby the centralistic nature of the society is giving way to a more open and tolerant atmosphere towards political…
Epilogue
Predictors of Retention and Turnover Among Service Volunteer Workers
This study identifies predictors of retention and turnover among volunteers in three Israeli community centers. The entire service volunteer population was examined at two points in time with an interval of 6 months. At T2 a distinction was made between "stayers", "leavers for objective reasons" (uncontrollable turnover), and "leavers by choice" (controllable turnover). On the basis of their responses at T1, discriminant analysis was used to iden…
Sources of Job Satisfaction Among Service Volunteers
Understanding multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations: The contributions of theories on civil society, social movements and non-profit organizations
The paper offers a theoretical framework to study the conditions that lead to the emergence of multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations and the factors that influence their ability to mobilize resources and enlist commitment. These organizations are characterized by four interrelated attributes: (a) they set out as their mission to uphold and promote cultural values that are typically at variant with dominant and institutionalized values; (b)…
The evolution of Israel's third sector: The role of predominant ideology
The article presents a case study of the evolution of Israel's third sector. It uses quantitative data on the economic structure of the sector, as well as historical data on the changes it has undergone in the past 80 years or so. This period is subdivided into three eras, each characterised by a different dominant ideology within which third sector organisations develop. The analysis emphasises the interplay between the dominant ideology and the…
Predictors of Retention and Turnover Among Service Volunteer Workers
This study identifies predictors of retention and turnover among volunteers in three Israeli community centers. The entire service volunteer population was examined at two points in time with an interval of 6 months. At T2 a distinction was made between "stayers", "leavers for objective reasons" (uncontrollable turnover), and "leavers by choice" (controllable turnover). On the basis of their responses at T1, discriminant analysis was used to iden…
Cross‐cultural perspectives on self‐help groups: Comparison between participants and nonparticipants in Israel and the United States
Peer Reviewed
Through a New Lens: The Third Sector and Israeli Society
THE TASK OF STUDYING the third sector 1 in Israel is difficult. In addition to the regular confusion and misconceptions abundant in this field of research, until recently Israel's third sector had been absent from both the research community's agenda and Israeli public discourse. Moreover, the third sector has not been recognized as a distinct entity in Israel. The delineation of sectors has been rather ambiguous; therefore, the concept of a thir…
Peace and Conflict Resolution Organizations in Three Protracted Conflicts: Structures, Resources and Ideology
Guided by organizational and social movement theories, this study compares the structures, resource bases, ideologies, and strategies of nongovernmental organizations engaged in peace and conflict resolution (P/CROs) in three regions with extended violent conflicts: Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. Qualitative content analysis techniques are used to analyze 27 detailed case reports. We analyze the funding patterns and structu…
Exploring the Nonprofit Motive (Or: (What's in it for You?)
Self-Help Groups and Human Service Organizations: An Interorganizational Perspective
In this article, we examine the conditions that give rise to relations between human service organizations and self-help groups and the forms that such relations may assume. Using an interorganizational perspective, we develop a model that compares self-help groups and human service organizations. This model is used to derive propositions about the conditions that lead to interorganizational relations between these two kinds of social organizatio…
Encroachment and Reaction of Civil Society in Non-liberal Democracies: The Case of Israel and the New Israel Fund
Recent decades have seen a major political shift in many nations, manifested in democratic regression, rise of populist non-liberal democracies, resurgence of extreme right, infractions against democratic watchdogs, and increasing nationalism and unilateralism. A central manifestation of this process is the active encroachment by governments on civil society, and particularly on its liberal elements. These manifestations allegedly emanate from re…
Perspectives on the Small Community: Humanistic Views for Practitioners . Emilia E. Martinez-Brawley
Stress and coping patterns of parents of the mentally ill in Israel
Stress and coping patterns of participants and non-participants in self-help groups for parents of the mentally ill
A social welfare perspective of market‐oriented social enterprises
The article analyses market‐oriented social enterprises from a social welfare perspective, within the context of the innate conflict between business and welfare orientations. After defining the concept of market‐oriented social enterprises and presenting some successful examples on such entities that employ different marginalised populations, particularly people with disabilities, the article asks three interrelated questions: (i) What policy en…
Policy Challenges in Light of the Emerging Phenomenon of Social Businesses
The paper focuses on the new phenomenon of social businesses and analyzes their unique attributes and their variegated contributions to those working in them and to society. Organizationally and conceptually, these hybrid entities can be placed between the non-profit and the business organization form as they are allowed to distribute profits but not to the owner/investor of the firm. The paper places such entities within the larger context of so…
Sources of Job Satisfaction Among Service Volunteers
Predictors of Retention and Turnover Among Service Volunteer Workers
This study identifies predictors of retention and turnover among volunteers in three Israeli community centers. The entire service volunteer population was examined at two points in time with an interval of 6 months. At T2 a distinction was made between "stayers", "leavers for objective reasons" (uncontrollable turnover), and "leavers by choice" (controllable turnover). On the basis of their responses at T1, discriminant analysis was used to iden…
Self-Help Awareness in Israel: An Expression of Structural Changes and Expanding Citizen Participation
Observers of the Israeli society in the 1950s and 1960s have characterized its political structure as centralistic, with a very large public sector and with relatively little activity taking place outside it or without its consent. There are indications that since the early 1970s, certain structural changes have been taking place, whereby the centralistic nature of the society is giving way to a more open and tolerant atmosphere towards political…
Epilogue
Stress and coping patterns of participants and non-participants in self-help groups for parents of the mentally ill
Cross‐cultural perspectives on self‐help groups: Comparison between participants and nonparticipants in Israel and the United States
Peer Reviewed
Perspectives on the Small Community: Humanistic Views for Practitioners . Emilia E. Martinez-Brawley
Stress and coping patterns of parents of the mentally ill in Israel
Self-Help Groups and Human Service Organizations: An Interorganizational Perspective
In this article, we examine the conditions that give rise to relations between human service organizations and self-help groups and the forms that such relations may assume. Using an interorganizational perspective, we develop a model that compares self-help groups and human service organizations. This model is used to derive propositions about the conditions that lead to interorganizational relations between these two kinds of social organizatio…
Exploring the Nonprofit Motive (Or: (What's in it for You?)
The evolution of Israel's third sector: The role of predominant ideology
The article presents a case study of the evolution of Israel's third sector. It uses quantitative data on the economic structure of the sector, as well as historical data on the changes it has undergone in the past 80 years or so. This period is subdivided into three eras, each characterised by a different dominant ideology within which third sector organisations develop. The analysis emphasises the interplay between the dominant ideology and the…
Peace and Conflict Resolution Organizations in Three Protracted Conflicts: Structures, Resources and Ideology
Guided by organizational and social movement theories, this study compares the structures, resource bases, ideologies, and strategies of nongovernmental organizations engaged in peace and conflict resolution (P/CROs) in three regions with extended violent conflicts: Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. Qualitative content analysis techniques are used to analyze 27 detailed case reports. We analyze the funding patterns and structu…
Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine
Peace and conflict‐resolution organizations (P/CROs) are civil society organizations dedicated to resolving protracted conflicts. Teams of local researchers coordinated by an international advisory board, investigate the characteristics, roles, similarities, and differences of P/CROs in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine in the last third of the twentieth century. Comparative research of this sort throws up definitional, concept…
Through a New Lens: The Third Sector and Israeli Society
THE TASK OF STUDYING the third sector 1 in Israel is difficult. In addition to the regular confusion and misconceptions abundant in this field of research, until recently Israel's third sector had been absent from both the research community's agenda and Israeli public discourse. Moreover, the third sector has not been recognized as a distinct entity in Israel. The delineation of sectors has been rather ambiguous; therefore, the concept of a thir…
The Israeli Third Sector: Between Welfare State and Civil Society
Commentary on Beyes & Jäger, and Galaskiewicz: A rebuttal
Understanding multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations: The contributions of theories on civil society, social movements and non-profit organizations
The paper offers a theoretical framework to study the conditions that lead to the emergence of multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations and the factors that influence their ability to mobilize resources and enlist commitment. These organizations are characterized by four interrelated attributes: (a) they set out as their mission to uphold and promote cultural values that are typically at variant with dominant and institutionalized values; (b)…
Policy Challenges in Light of the Emerging Phenomenon of Social Businesses
The paper focuses on the new phenomenon of social businesses and analyzes their unique attributes and their variegated contributions to those working in them and to society. Organizationally and conceptually, these hybrid entities can be placed between the non-profit and the business organization form as they are allowed to distribute profits but not to the owner/investor of the firm. The paper places such entities within the larger context of so…
Social Enterprises: An Organizational Perspective
Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin
Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups: International and Multicultural Perspectives
Market-Oriented Social Enterprises Employing People with Disabilities: A Participants’ Perspective
The paper focuses on the participants’ perspective of social enterprises, particularly those providing employment for a variety of handicapped populations. It argues that when dealing with such populations with the goal of integrating them into society, contrary to present policy and practice, a market orientation of the organizations employing them, provides, under certain circumstances and with certain populations, advantages and opportunities …
A social welfare perspective of market‐oriented social enterprises
The article analyses market‐oriented social enterprises from a social welfare perspective, within the context of the innate conflict between business and welfare orientations. After defining the concept of market‐oriented social enterprises and presenting some successful examples on such entities that employ different marginalised populations, particularly people with disabilities, the article asks three interrelated questions: (i) What policy en…
Encroachment and Reaction of Civil Society in Non-liberal Democracies: The Case of Israel and the New Israel Fund
Recent decades have seen a major political shift in many nations, manifested in democratic regression, rise of populist non-liberal democracies, resurgence of extreme right, infractions against democratic watchdogs, and increasing nationalism and unilateralism. A central manifestation of this process is the active encroachment by governments on civil society, and particularly on its liberal elements. These manifestations allegedly emanate from re…
Israel's civil society 2023 from protest to aid provision – a serving elite perspective
The year 2023 in Israel started with illiberal constitutional change efforts by the new right-wing government and concluded with a brutal attack by Hamas terrorists and the subsequent war. Both occurrences galvanized two massive surges of civil society activism. The first was a mass protest that impeded the government's undemocratic legislation. The second was a large-scale mobilization to support a variety of populations affected by the war, pro…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (12 works) · Business (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)