The Unpaid Leaders of French Voluntary Associations

Lionel Prouteau () and Muriel Tabariés ()
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Lionel Prouteau: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes
Muriel Tabariés: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper focuses on the voluntary workers who take on responsibilities in French voluntary associations. First, drawing on a national association survey, we contrast the characteristics of leadership volunteers, especially chairpersons, with those of the French population as a whole. We show that leaders are very different from the overall population even if these differences seem to diminish for organisations created more recently. Secondly, from a national household survey, we compare Board members with other members of associations. Among other results, we find that the former are more rooted in their local environment and they participate more frequently in several associations. They are driven by more activist motives than are the other members. They give more time to their associations and they use more skills in their voluntary tasks.

Keywords: Participation in association; voluntary work; Board members: leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03
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Published in Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2010, 81 (1), pp.131-166. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-8292.2009.00408.x⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8292.2009.00408.x

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