Author(s): Denis Bernardeau-Moreau
Recent studies highlight the managerial and professional evolution of associations, with the largest adopting an entrepreneurial mode of operation. Against a background of professionalization in the non-profit sector, which is faced with increasingly managerial regulation of its modes of operation and its forms of governance, volunteer experiences are more frequently perceived as activities that generate skills of a social nature, as may be expected, but also of a managerial nature. A more competitive regulation is now imposed on the state and tutelary regulation, which has prevailed up to this point, enabling commercial companies to enter a sector that had been reserved for associations until now. This competition in social assistance forces volunteers to react by strengthening their skill levels