Motives for Donating: What Inspires Our Decisions to Make a
Donation to Non-profit Organisations?

J 2015

Motives for Donating: What Inspires Our Decisions to Make a Donation to Non-profit Organisations?

HLADKÁ, Marie and Vladimír HYÁNEK

Basic information

Original name

Motives for Donating: What Inspires Our Decisions to Make a Donation to Non-profit Organisations?

Authors

HLADKÁ, Marie (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Vladimír HYÁNEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Národohospodářský obzor, Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 1213-2446

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50200 5.2 Economics and Business

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14560/15:00081099

Organization unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2015-0026

UT WoS

000446829000003

Keywords in English

Altruism; charitable giving; motive

Abstract

V originále

Motivation represents a foundation cornestone on which analyses in a number of the humanities and social sciences are built. For a long time, economists have seen motivation as connected with the act of giving, trying to interpret it in the context of the neoclassical economics assumptions. On the basis of representative theoretical models, Ziemek (2003) distinguishes three basic categories of motives underlying the act of giving: altruism, egoism and investment. They also form the basis of this paper. The objective of this paper is to find answers to the question what mainly motivates the Czech population in their decisions to make a donation and whether there is any interdependence among such motives. We also ask what the relationship is between the determining motives and the rate or frequency of donating. The donation models that we analyse and use as the basis of our research are nowadays considered being the principal or at least interesting donation models commonly taken into account by economists in their work. We have only focused on selected microeconomics models to make the text clearly targeted; specifically we are examining the public goods model, private consumption model investment model and impure altruism model. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey and analysed by means of mathematical-statistical methods that are commonly used in similar cases, such as descriptive statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient and the ANOVA method based on the F-test.The empirical testing confirmed several assumptions connecting with this type of a research; however, our paper opened a space for a follow-up research, too.

Links

GA14-06856S, research and development project

Name: Vliv veřejných financí na strukturu zdrojů a produkci neziskových institucí

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

HLADKÁ, Marie and Vladimír HYÁNEK. Motives for Donating: What Inspires Our Decisions to Make a Donation to Non-profit Organisations? Národohospodářský obzor. Masarykova univerzita, 2015, vol. 2015, No 4, p. 357-382. ISSN 1213-2446. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2015-0026.

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HLADKÁ, Marie and Vladimír HYÁNEK. Motives for Donating: What Inspires Our Decisions to Make a Donation to Non-profit Organisations? \textit{Národohospodářský obzor}. Masarykova univerzita, 2015, vol.~2015, No~4, p.~357-382. ISSN~1213-2446. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2015-0026.

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