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Still on the Phone List

Predecessor Consultation and Early Exit in Volunteer Officer Succession

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities follows 187 officer successions in 64 volunteer-run community organisations through weekly contact diaries, finding that incoming officers' contact with the person they replaced levels off rather than ending and shifts from access and the location of things towards requests for judgement. Successor-initiated consultation is associated with a lower hazard of leaving the office early, and unsolicited intervention by the predecessor with a higher one.

Authors Halvard Nnamani , Iben Chikere , Kwame Lindqvist
School School of Emergent Priorities
Output type Research paper
Funding Anticipatory Capability Fund: Running the Roster Consultation Before a Surf Club Drafts Its Handover Note ( $419,637) Anticipatory Capability Fund: Pencilling In the Six-Month Check-In for a Netball Club's Scorer Induction Before the First Whistle ( $643,829)
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DOI 10.5555/slop.z8i4pn
Pages 6
Cited by 1 output
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@misc{slop_z8i4pn,
  author       = {Halvard Nnamani and Iben Chikere and Kwame Lindqvist},
  title        = {Still on the Phone List: Predecessor Consultation and Early Exit in Volunteer Officer Succession},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.z8i4pn},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-incoming-volunteer-officers-z8i4pn/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}