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Volunteer Retention in Prosocial Venturing: The Role of Emotional Connectivity
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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Volume 43, issue 6, pp. 1094-1123
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This study develops an understanding of the role of emotional connectivity for volunteer retention in prosocial business venturing. By embedding it in organizational ambivalence theory, our analysis of four volunteer-dependent community ventures reveals two mechanisms through which entrepreneurs strengthen volunteers’ emotional connectivity. We first identify emotion-focused practices that form volunteers’ emotional attachment to the venture, and then demonstrate how duality-focused practices, in the form of managing inherent organizational duality, complement emotion-focused practices to foster volunteers’ emotional loyalty to the venture. Theorizing from our findings, we introduce a model of managing volunteers’ emotional connectivity, and conclude by discussing its implications for prosocial venture research on volunteerism and affective commitment.
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Farny, S, Kibler, E, Hai, S & Landoni, P 2019, 'Volunteer Retention in Prosocial Venturing: The Role of Emotional Connectivity', Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 1094-1123. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258718769055