Jones, David A., Aujla, Aaron, Portocarrero, Florencio F., Booth, Jonathan Edward 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8563-4613, Xu, Haoying, Antunes, Bethania and Dempsey-Brench, Kiera
(2025)
Perspectives on corporate volunteering programs: why they matter and new directions.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025 (1).
ISSN 0065-0668
Abstract
Research on the volunteering experiences of employees and their relationships with personal and organizational outcomes has blossomed in recent years. However, much of this research has not distinguished between employees’ engagement in personal and corporate-sponsored volunteering programs. Personal volunteering (i.e., employees volunteering their own time to causes that support the community) is distinct from corporate volunteering – employees’ participation in corporate-sponsored activities, with support from their employer in terms of paid time or other supporting resources. Given our shortage of knowledge regarding the impacts of corporate-sponsored volunteering programs in particular, this symposium brings together five presentations that seek to advance our understanding of the impacts of corporate volunteering programs from a variety of perspectives. Collectively, the papers use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to provide novel insights into why corporate volunteering matters, the processes through which organizations design and implement these programs, the impacts such programs can have on employees, the expectations various stakeholders in these programs hold of each other, and how these programs can be designed to be sustainable over time. The symposium will close with an audience discussion led by our discussant on the implications of the five papers for the study of corporate volunteering programs. Employee volunteering as a change catalyst Author: Katerina Gonzalez; Suffolk University Author: Florencio F. Portocarrero; London School of Economics and Political Science Broadening the Social Impact: How Volunteering Enables Servant Leadership Author: Haoying Xu; Stevens Institute of Technology Author: John Lynch; University of Illinois at Chicago Author: Sandy J. Wayne; Author: Siyi Tao; Employee volunteering programs: a marginal and essentially performative CSR tool Author: Bethania Antunes; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Cecile Guillaume; University of Surrey Author: Lisa Jean Cafora; University of Surrey The (Mis)Alignment of Expectations across Corporate Volunteering Program Stakeholders Author: Jonathan Edward Booth; Author: John Lynch; University of Illinois at Chicago Author: Aaron Aujla; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Haoying Xu; Stevens Institute of Technology When in Rome? Selling centralized HR policies across subsidiaries: A qualitative investigation Author: Kiera Dempsey-Brench; Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Author: Mihwa Seong; King's College London Author: Amanda Shantz; Not Associated
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © Academy of Management Proceedings |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2025 15:51 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Dec 2025 17:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130435 |
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