Volunteer Fire and Rescue Corporations: Structure, Process, and Survival

Perkins, Kenneth B.

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“… 5. According to Perkins (1990), fire department units have a high degree of cooperation and strong informal norms of mutual aid among members. According to an empirical study conducted by Perry (2004), fire department personnel generally have higher levels of trust and organizational commitment than private firms. …”

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Regional Cooperation and Multilateral Agreements in the Provision of Public Safety

Andrew

Hawkins

2012

The American Review of Public Administration

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Although much has been written about interlocal agreements for the delivery of services, few studies have examined the factors that influence the establishment of different types of multilateral agreements (MLAs). To address this lacuna, the authors draw a distinction between an adaptive and restrictive MLA and seek to understand why local governments enter into one type of arrangement over the other. The authors build our theoretical argument on the basis of previous research that suggests agreements are designed to minimize the uncertainties associated with transaction risk. On the basis of this premise, the author’s general proposition is that the decision to establish an adaptive MLA is shaped by the asset specificity and measurability of the goods and services of the transaction. The authors utilize data on public safety agreements among municipal and county governments in the state of Florida. Findings suggest that local governments are more likely to form an adaptive MLA when goods and services are relatively high in service measurability difficulty and when both high and low asset specificity exit.

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Regional Cooperation and Multilateral Agreements in the Provision of Public Safety

Andrew

Hawkins

2012

The American Review of Public Administration

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“…De esta forma el voluntariado entre las mujeres se orienta hacia actividades tradicionalmente vinculadas con el rol femenino (como por ejemplo el cuidado de las personas), y menos hacia otras actividades de índole de mayor visibilidad pública o de carácter político. Desde esta orientación resulta menos probable que las mujeres ocupen posiciones de liderazgo en este ámbito (Menchik y Weisbrod, 1987;Perkins, 1990;Cnaan y Goldberg-Glen, 1991;Cable, 1992;Schlozman y otros, 1994;Thompson, 1993Thompson, , 1995. Este patrón no varía ni por razones geográficas (Gaskin y Smith, 1997), ni étnicas (Woodard, 1987), ni por grupos de edad (Fischer y otros, 1991;Sundeen y Raskoff, 1994;Wuthnow, 1995).…”

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Factores personales y contextuales para compatibilizar voluntariado y actividad laboral:

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Gutiérrez

2020

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El propósito de nuestra investigación consiste en analizar cuáles son los factores que determinan el nivel de dedicación de tiempo a actividades voluntarias en trabajadores por cuenta ajena. Para ello se ha aplicado un modelo de regresión logística a una muestra de 6.334 asalariados en el que se consideran cuatro categorías de factores: personales y familiares, laborales, organizativos y de implicación en la comunidad. Las conclusiones de este estudio son especialmente relevantes en dos ámbitos. Por un lado, para el diseño de una política de responsabilidad social por parte de las empresas que incorpore eﬁcazmente la ﬁgura del voluntariado corporativo considerando los factores relevantes. Por otro, para que las organizaciones del Tercer Sector amplíen su perspectiva más allá del perﬁl tradicional de voluntario que suelen utilizarse.

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“…The origins and development of volunteer fire departments and volunteer medical rescue squads provide insight into their latent orientations (Perkins, 1990). Fire departments have generally been part of the rural social landscape for a long time, commonly more than a century Their origins were often spontaneous, typically a community's internal response to a particularly destructive conflagration.…”

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“…Although to some extent this may result from the physically demanding nature of firefighting as well as its longstanding conservative traditions, together with the gender-based divisions prevalent in the corresponding paid sectors of the economy, this gender-based difference in membership also reflects the reality that fire departments, much more than medical squads, fulfill the function of social clubs in addition to their community service, which undoubtedly reinforces the degree of commitment these organizations enjoy from their membership (Perkins, 1987;Perkins, 1990;Perkins Q Metz, 1988;Thompson, 1993~). Firefighters are more committed to indefinite residency in their communities; belong to larger households, which often shelter their extended families; and are more likely to be married, which also deepens their community roots.…”

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Latent Cosmopolitan and Local Orientation Among Rural Emergency Service Volunteers

Thompson

1995

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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In rural regions, trained volunteerfirefighters and medics provide emergency services, often with considerable personal risk and without financial reward.Howevel; these Volunteers exhibit two different latent orientations: jirefighters are more localistic in their outlook than medical volunteers. These latent orientations refect the structural characteristics of the two emergency service agencies. These orientations are empirically demonstrated to persist in the volunteering and personal attributes ofthe volunteers themselves. Survey data are incorporated into a probit model to indicate the relative influence of orientationalfactors on where the volunteers offer their emergency services.In most rural regions of the nation, emergency fire and medical services are provided by volunteer members offire departments and medical squads. These trained volunteers provide essential, nondeferrable public goods to their communities, often with considerable personal risk and without pecuniary reward.Although usually distinct organizations, volunteer medical squads and fire departments often provide their services cooperatively during community emergencies because many events that require the intervention of one require intervention of the other. A typical scenario is the personal injury automobile accident, where the fire department is called on to suppress fire and extricate injured people from the wreck while the rescue squad attends to the medical needs of the victims and transports them to the appropriate medical facility for definitive medical care. A similar cooperative evolution takes place at structure fires, hazardous materials incidents, and other rescue operations.Many volunteer fire departments currently include medically trained personnel, which contributes to the cooperative nature of these emergency operations.Note: I am indebted to Robert McAulay. David Kennett, and three anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier drafts.

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Volunteer Fire and Rescue Corporations: Structure, Process, and Survival

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Regional Cooperation and Multilateral Agreements in the Provision of Public Safety

Regional Cooperation and Multilateral Agreements in the Provision of Public Safety

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