It is believed that the major contributions of this paper are that it provides a rationalized view of the VC domain and enables different interpretations/presentations to be compared, understood and classified within the context of a clear…

Additional analysis provided the opportunity to qualify and link earlier ideas. Possible relationships between the five VC forms and four temporal-types of VC were suggested, and the idea that each value form could be perceived both in pro…

VC has attracted growing, and latterly intense, speculation, not least because it is now perceived as a key driver of satisfaction and loyalty. The many recent research documents published on this topic, have, ostensibly, addressed a singl…

It was established that 'value', in the broadest sense, can best be understood by addressing the fields of philosophy and political economy. In the latter, distinct, but associated, ideas of 'use value' and 'exchange value' were found to i…

Bagozzi (1984) suggests that conceptual meaning within theory construction can be allocated in three ways: via attributional definition, via structural definition, and/or through dispositional definition. This paper adopts this same perspe…

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Lyons, M. (2005). 'The Political Economy of the Voluntary Sector. A Reappraisal of the Comparative Institutional Advantage of Voluntary Organisations'. Economic Record 81(252): 89. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=935525971&Fmt=7&clientI…

Grimalda, G. and L. Sacconi (2005). 'The Constitution of the Not-For-Profit Organisation: Reciprocal Conformity to Morality'. Constitutional Political Economy 16(3): 249. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=331764961&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQ…