Engaged anthropology and corporate volunteering

Year, pages: 2015, 339 - 354

The aim of this paper is to present engaged anthropology and its methodological tools with a specific perspective of the research field and the position of the researcher with regard to research subjects. The study focuses on corporate volunteering as one of the forms of collaboration between the non-profit and the private sectors seeking solutions to social problems and community development. Volunteering projects contribute to the interlinking of the knowledge, skills, experience and resources of corporate employees and the representatives of the non-profit or the public sector. It is a part of the philanthropic strategy of companies which are willing to present themselves as entities responsible towards the environment in which they run their business, and towards their employees, partners and customers. Engaged anthropology can bring, through its methodological tools, a new perspective of corporate volunteering. Community-based participatory research on the process of knowledge creation includes all partners on an equal basis and identifies their unique contribution to problem solution and community development.

Blahová, N. 2015. Engaged anthropology and corporate volunteering. In Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, vol. 63, no.4, pp. 339-354. 1339-9357.

Blahová, N. (2015). Engaged anthropology and corporate volunteering. Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, 63(4), 339-354. 1339-9357.

Publisher: Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie SAV