Femida Handy 04 / 06 · Publications

Selected publications

Selected refereed journal articles organized by subject.

A.

Volunteering & Civil Society

  • 2011Cultural values and volunteering: A cross-cultural comparison of students' motivation to volunteer in 13 countries
    Journal of Academic Ethics
  • 1996Defining who is a volunteer: Conceptual and empirical considerations
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 2008Interchangeability of paid staff and volunteers in nonprofit organizations
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 2010Navigating theories of volunteering: A hybrid map for a complex phenomenon
    Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
  • 2009Immigrant volunteering: A stepping-stone to integration?
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 2019Volunteering and wellbeing among ageing adults: A longitudinal analysis
    Voluntas
B.

Philanthropy & Giving

  • 2018The Development and Validation of the Motives to Donate Scale
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 2009Keeping up with the Joneses: The relationship between perceived descriptive social norms, social information, and charitable giving
    Nonprofit Management and Leadership
  • 2019Charitable giving: What influences donors' choice among different causes?
    Voluntas
  • 2010Gendered giving: The influence of social norms on the donation behavior of men and women
    Int. Journal of Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Marketing
  • 2021The good-looking giver effect: The relationship between doing good and looking good
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 2021Global philanthropy: Does institutional context matter for charitable giving?
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
C.

Nonprofit Economics & Management

  • 1995Reputation as collateral: An economic analysis of the role of trustees in nonprofits
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 1998The wage differential between nonprofit institutions and corporations
    Journal of Comparative Economics
  • 1997Co-existence of nonprofits, for-profits, and public sector institutions
    Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
  • 2004Valuing volunteers: An economic evaluation of the net benefits of hospital volunteers
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 2019Intra-organizational conditions supporting social innovation in human service nonprofits
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 2022Measuring a nonprofit's civic footprint
    Voluntas
D.

India, Microfinance & Development

  • 2012Financial inclusion: Lessons from rural South India
    Journal of Social Policy
  • 2007To profit or not to profit: Women entrepreneurs in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors in India
    Nonprofit Management and Leadership
  • 2024Microfinance through the Self-Help Group–Bank Linkage Programme: Impact on ancillary employment
    Canadian Journal of Development
  • 2011Jasmine growers of coastal Karnataka, India: Grassroots sustainable community-based enterprise
    Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
  • 2007Practice what you preach? The role of rural NGOs in women's empowerment
    Journal of Community Practice
  • 2009Understanding volunteer leaders of microcredit self-help groups in Karnataka, India
    Social Development Issues
E.

Environment & Generosity

  • 2012Environmental philanthropy: Is it similar to other types of environmental behavior?
    Organization & Environment
  • 2021Intergenerational disenchantment? Motivations for environmental behaviors across generations in South Korea
    Geoforum
  • 2020Environmental behavior in three countries: The role of intergenerational transmission and domains of socialization
    Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • 2017The relationship between value types and environmental behaviour in four countries
    Environmental Values
  • 2024Do grandparents' environmental behaviors influence grandchildren?
    Sociological Spectrum
  • 2011Generation green: Understanding the motivations and mechanisms influencing young adults' environmental volunteering
    International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing
F.

Work, Well-being & CSR

  • 2018Job crafting as reaction to organizational change
    Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
  • 2018Do government expenditures shift private philanthropic donations to particular fields of welfare?
    European Sociological Review
  • 2023Does retirement from volunteering impact well-being? A longitudinal analysis
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 2023Voluntary Sector Participation and Support for Redistribution: Evidence from 18 Advanced Industrial Democracies (1990-2013)
    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • 2014Health outcomes and volunteering: The moderating role of religiosity
    Social Indicators Research
  • 2024The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on recruitment and retention of volunteers and donors
    Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance

Honors, awards, and funded research

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