Volunteers in public benefit organizations in Poland and the UK - do the organizations’ financial results depend on the number of volunteers?

• Authors: Halina Waniak-Michalak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Many private institutions serving public purposes use volunteer work that they must disclose in their reports. In this paper, 315 public benefit organizations in Poland (PBOs) and 315 charities in the UK are analyzed using statistical methods. Differences in the level of disclosure and the degree to which PBOs’ financial results depend on the number of volunteers are also described. The conclusion the research has offered is that UK PBOs operate on a wider scale and use volunteer work more frequently and that the Polish. Moreover, UK PBOs are not significantly different than Polish regarding the relationship between their financial results and the number of volunteers supporting their activities.

Keywords

EN

Volunteers, PBOs, financial results

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Business and Economic Horizons
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 209-223

Dates

published

2016-01-19

Contributors

author

Halina Waniak-Michalak

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/beh.2015.16