Abstract
Major events can and do play an important role in the development of volunteering in China. This article employs organizational neo-institutionalism as a lens to examine and interpret the meanings of major events for the development of Chinese volunteerism. We consider the Wenchuan earthquake and the Beijing Olympics as “Field-Configuring Events” that influenced the process of institutionalizing volunteering. The article’s findings highlight that these major events shaped the public’s culture and cognition of volunteering and the network-governance structure of volunteering, thereby opening a window of opportunity for volunteerism policy decision-making.
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