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Getting connected: An empirical investigation of the relationship between social capital and philanthropy among online volunteers
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posted on 2018-07-27, 09:13 authored by Joe Cox, Eun Young Oh, Brooke Simmons, Gary Graham, Anita Greenhill, Chris Lintott, Karen Masters, Roy MeritonThe concept of social capital has attracted much attention from researchers and policy
makers, largely due to links with positive social outcomes and philanthropic acts such as volunteering and donations. However, a rapid growth in internet technologies and social media networks has fundamentally affected the formation of social capital, as well as the way in which it potentially associates with prosocial behaviors. This study uses unique data from a survey of online volunteers to explore the interrelationships between social capital and a mix of self-reported and observed philanthropic activities in both online and offline settings. Our results show that while social capital levels associate strongly with offline donations, there are key differences in the relationships between social capital and volunteering in online and offline settings. Using a 2SLS regression analysis in order to control for endogeneity, we also infer a number of causal relationships between social capital and philanthropy.
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- Loughborough University London
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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector QuarterlyVolume
48Issue
2_supplPages
151S - 173SCitation
COX, J. ... et al., 2019. Getting connected: An empirical investigation of the relationship between social capital and philanthropy among online volunteers. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48 (2_suppl), pp.151S-173S.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by SAGE PublicationsVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-07-21Publication date
2018-08-24Notes
This paper was published in the journal Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764018794905.ISSN
0899-7640eISSN
1552-7395Publisher version
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- en
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