This paper analyzes the recruitment of executive board members for German sports clubs, an issue of key interest given that volunteers play a dominant role in these sports clubs. Based on a new, micro-level data set, we examine how members of a sports club advance to become executive board...

Volunteering can be interpreted as a process of search that matches volunteer labor supply with demand for volunteer work by voluntary organizations like sports clubs. Using novel data from an online questionnaire study of German sports club members, we constructed a match quality index (MQI)...

Auf der Grundlage eines neu erhobenen Datensatzes werden die sozioökonomischen Charakteristika der Ehrenamtlichen im Deutschen Roten Kreuz beschrieben. Zudem wird auf der Basis theoretischer Überlegungen ein Vergleich mit den Ehrenamtlichen in Fußballvereinen gezogen. Damit wird ein...

The present survey measured a wide variety of indicators on different levels, which permit an evaluation of the development of the participation of women in athletics. All in all an upward trend can be noted. One exception is the decreasing proportion of women on the ITO panels. The proportion...

The present survey measured a wide variety of indicators on different levels, which permit an evaluation of the development of the participation of women in athletics. All in all an upward trend can be noted. One exception is the decreasing proportion of women on the ITO panels. The proportion...