To Disentangle the Motivation Behind Volunteers

摘要：

　　This study attempts to disentangle mysterious motivations behind college volunteers, based on the interpretation of volunteering as consumption and investment.Micro-level data, collected by the online Survey from the volunteers in World Exposition Shanghai China 2010 and the (non-) volunteers in RenDa Economics Forum, which is one of the main Chinese Social Networking Services websites, provide strong support for the consumptionmotive.As far as the investment motive is concerned we do not find clear statistical evidence for its validity with control for some other demographic factors, such as GPA, SNCEE, education of parents, working location and the type of working organization.

关键词： college volunteers consumption motive investment motive

作者: Wu Peiguan Li Xiaoye

作者单位: International Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, P.R.China, 519000 Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2013 International Conference on Strategic Management(2013年战略管理国际会议)

会议地点: 成都

会议语种:英文

页码: 444-457

在线出版日期: 2013-12-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）