Volunteers' Discursive Strategies for Navigating the Market/Mission Tension

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ID12249346
AuthorsCamilla Vásquez (0000-0002-3904-9878, corresponding author), Consuelo Vásquez, Frédérique Routhier, Emmanuelle Brindamour
Year2022
Volume34
Issue3
Pages519-539
Publication date2022-12-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVoluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11266-022-00543-x
OpenAlexW4311914380
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

This paper explores the paradoxical nature of volunteering by examining how volunteers navigate the market/mission paradox in their everyday practices. It mobilizes a communicative framework to study organizational oppositions. The paper contributes to the literature on the paradoxical nature of volunteering by proposing six discursive navigation strategies and a processual model for navigating oppositions in interaction. The findings highlight the importance of an organizing and pragmatic oriented discourse that acts as a dispatcher between opposed discourses, as well as “both-and” and “more than” approaches that create middle ground for negotiation. In addition, it shows the importance of balancing market and mission by looking for compromise

Compromise · Discourse analysis · Linguistics · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Organizational Strategy and Culture · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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