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The Effect of Optimal Discounting on Bundle Preference In Gift-giving Context

open access: yes, 2018
Bundling is the joint sale of two or more separate products at a single price, often discounted. When decision makers are faced with a bundle choice, they can opt to either purchase the bundle or any of its separate products.
Omebere-Iyari, D.
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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, reciprocity and trust [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper examines the role that gift giving plays in supplier–buyer relations, specifically, the role of gift giving and the creation of inter-organisational trust.
Mathews, M.
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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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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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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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Consequences of Gift Giving in Online Health Communities on Physician Service Quality: Empirical Text Mining Study

open access: yesJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2020
BackgroundGift giving, which has been a heavily debated topic in health care for many years, is considered as a way of expressing gratitude and to be beneficial for the physician-patient relationship within a reasonable range.
Peng, Li, Wang, Yanan, Chen, Jing
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Collective philanthropy: describing and modeling the ecology of giving. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions.
William L Gottesman   +2 more
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Gift-Giving, Quasi-Credit and Reciprocity [PDF]

open access: yesRationality and Society, 2002
The fluctuations in incomes inherent in rural communities can be attenuated by reciprocal insurance. We develop a model of such insurance based on self-interested behaviour and voluntary participation. One individual assists another only if the costs of so doing are outweighed by the benefits from expected future reciprocation.
Jonathan P. Thomas, Tim S. Worrall
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