...Vera Kauppinen; Tiina Silvasti Purpose This study examines how food donations are used as a power resource in Finnish food charity, and how the restructuring of food aid impacts the quantity and quality of the food distributed. It highlights changes at the organizational level and explains (un...

...Gemma Lord Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically the dynamics by which austerity, a “moment” of neoliberal policy reform enacted through strategies of market-driven governance (MDG), provides the conditions for the insertion of capitalist-market logics into the charity sector...

... Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in three charity organisations in Croatia. The reported material is based on participant observation, interviews and informal conversations with organisation members, activists, employees and end users. Findings The authors find that charity activists and recipients...

...James Gordon Rice; Anna Wojtyńska Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study which analyses the ambiguous relationship that Icelandic charities and NGOs have with the formal social welfare services they collaborate with as well as the clients they serve. Design/methodology...