Adding the Organizational Perspective
How Organizations Shape Service Work Abroad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12250351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyle Nelson (0000-0002-4457-1871), Kyle A Nelson (0000-0002-1522-8548, corresponding author), Curtis Child (0000-0001-9460-7249) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 525-548 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Voluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11266-015-9575-1 |
| OpenAlex | W1996998014 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 46 |
International volunteering is an increasingly popular form of service work, but the scholarship on international volunteering has done little to unpack the assertion that organizations shape the international volunteering experience. We demonstrate the utility of taking an organizational perspective by reporting on an ethnographic investigation of an international voluntary service episode in Southern India. In doing so, we attend to all of the parties common to international volunteering—the coordinating international volunteer service organization, the host NGOs, and the volunteers—and pay particular attention to the organizational dynamics that influence the service rendered. We find that the different actors in the service relationship understood successful international development efforts in different ways, which frustrated the productivity of the relationships in question. These mismatched goals were partly the legacy of a partnership-formation process that followed a cultural–historical logic rather than an instrumental one. The consequences were dissatisfaction on the part of volunteers and mixed benefits for the organizations with which they were matched. We suggest that these findings have relevance to other international volunteering sites
Assertion · Business · Ethnography · General partnership · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Scholarship · Service (business · Sociology · Work (physics · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development · Marketing
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Collective and Reflexive Styles of Volunteering
Medical voluntourism in Honduras
The universal common good
The Forms and Structure of International Voluntary Service
Effects of International Volunteering and Service
The Deployment of Partnerships by the Voluntary Sector to Address Service Needs in Rural and Small Town Canada
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International volunteers’ perceptions of intercultural competence
Development NGOs and the Challenge of Partnership
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International volunteering for development and sustainability
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition
Capacity Building Contributions of Short-Term International Volunteers
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Volunteering in the developing world
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |