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Corruption and Culture: Revisiting the Claim of its Relationship [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2020
The researcher has long discussed ideas on how culture related to corruption. The buzzword “corrupt culture” was introduced to describe a group of people who act corrupt behavior.
Srirejeki Kiky
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Measuring following behaviour in gift giving by utility function: statistical model and empirical evidence from China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
Gift giving is a prevalent social custom, particularly in Chinese society. Since people do not act independently of social norms, they are also motivated by the views of others when giving gifts. However, there is no existing literature on this important
Tao Zhang
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Gift Cards and Gift Giving

open access: yesJournal of Applied Marketing Theory, 2013
Gift cards are frequently located at premium points inside the retail space where stores sell not only their own cards but also other retailers’ cards for almost every occasion. Media encouraged practitioners to promote these cards.
Melek Anitsal   +2 more
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Kaffet, blomman och det tända ljuset

open access: yesKulturella Perspektiv, 2007
What is gift-giving? This article presents a brief theoretical overview concerning the concept of gift-giving in the modern society. The concept of gift is an old social and cultural phenomenon.
Jörgen Lundälv, Per-Olof Larsson
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Gift Giving and the Evolution of Cooperation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, 1997
Summary: Gift giving is a practice common to many societies. In an evolutionary model the social custom of giving gifts at the beginning of a relationship can lead to trust and cooperation. The evolutionary approach makes predictions about the character of the goods that can be used as gifts.
H. Lorne Carmichael, W. Bentley MacLeod
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Personal values and gift giving act: a proposed connection

open access: yesEstudios Gerenciales, 2020
The consumption of gifts is relevant and many commerce sales are carried out during traditional times of gift-giving, such as Christmas.
Sérgio Cruz Passos   +2 more
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The term bridewealth – A contribution to the terminology of matrimonial gift giving

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2006
This essay attempts to bring more order to terminology of matrimonial gift giving – the ever more complicated area in the past couple of decades. Furthermore, it reaffirms the idea of the evolution of matrimonial gift giving, and after many decades in ...
Vojislav Stanimirović
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Semiotic rhetoric of gift giving in ancient China

open access: yesLanguage and Semiotic Studies, 2023
This paper examines the signifying mechanism of gift-giving in ancient China from the perspective of semiotic rhetoric, aiming to answer the question of what can be regarded as li (roughly meaning ceremony, rite, courtesy, or gift) or, in other words ...
Zhao Xingzhi, Xue Chen
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More Expensive, More Attractive? The Effect of Pricing on Gift Evaluation: Differences Between Giver and Receiver

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The present research explored differences in gift evaluation between gift givers and receivers. Three studies were conducted to test how the pricing influenced the gift evaluations of givers and receivers, and whether the price-quality and price-monetary
Ning Liu, Yu Lou, Xinyu Wang, Shouxin Li
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Per una pedagogia del dono

open access: yesStudi sulla Formazione, 2017
The act of giving, in a pedagogical point of view, interlaces often with the act of giving himself and with the free and responsable will of encountering the other by his humanity.
Anna Kaiser
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