Is charitable giving politically motivated? This article uses exhaustive administrative household panel data and a natural experiment to investigate the giving behavior of wealthy households and quantify their preferences for charitable and political donations. Our dataset includes all the...

We investigated the factors that negatively affect the service delivery capacity of charities in Ghana by using seven Rotary clubs as a case study. Primary data was collected via a survey of executives of the seven Rotary clubs. Our analysis revealed that the three main challenges that Rotary...

This study examines whether and how a CEO's personal traits (gender, altruism, age, and founder) influence organizational performance. Building upon upper echelons theory, this study develops a conceptual framework that gives explicit recognition to how the institutional environment surrounding...

Im bundesdeutschen Kontext hat sich parallel und in Verschränkung zur sozialstaatlichen Armutsbekämpfung in der jüngeren Vergangenheit ein spendenbasiertes System der Armenhilfe etabliert: In der »neuen Mitleidsökonomie« geben Tafeln oder Kleiderkammern überschüssige Waren an eine...

The objective of the study is to examine factors that influence the intention to donate to charities that use social network sites in fundraising campaigns with especial focus on Facebook. To investigate research hypotheses and research questions, an online survey questionnaire was conducted....

We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck. We find that exposing the participants to a plea to help the beneficiary increases the average donation....

The paper, starting with the flood disaster that erupted in Henan in July 2021 and taking the enterprise charity practice of EREK as a single case research object, discusses why a bankrupt company can revive from charitable donation. The paper, putting forward the mechanism of enterprise...

Purpose The growth in the number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide has led to increased competition for donations. A stronger NGO brand equity will make donors more attracted to an organization, compelling them to increase both their donations and their commitment. The goal of...

The White Saviour charge accuses Western foreign aid of being tokenistic and self-serving, motivated by superiority, guilt and sentimentality and of perpetuating prejudice and negative stereotypes. How do White Saviour perceptions arise from charitable appeals and what is their effect on...

This paper examines how companies respond to negative ESG incidents by appointing directors with experience in charitable organizations. We find that firms are more likely to make such appointments following ESG incidents, especially when these incidents attract substantial media attention or...

Purpose - This paper aims to show that zakat solves the collective action problem by changing the framework of giving. An additional purpose of this paper is an attempt to fill a critical gap in the Islamic economics literature. This gap concerns the nature and role of zakat in effectively...