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Gift Giving and Corruption [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Administration, 2016
ABSTRACTWhen individuals exchange gifts, social bonds are strengthened and reciprocity is created. If the gift and the reciprocation both come from private resources, it is clearly a gift. If what is reciprocated after a gift is given comes from an organization, or is a government resource rather than from “one’s own pocket” then it is most likely a ...
Graycar, Adam, Jancsics, David
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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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Giving the Gift of Goodness: An Exploration of Socially Responsible Gift-Giving [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Business Ethics, 2014
Previous research demonstrates that consumers support firms' CSR activities, and increasingly demand socially responsible products and services. However, an implicit assumption in the extant literature is that the purchaser and the consumer of the product are the same person.
Green, Todd, Tinson, Julie, Peloza, John
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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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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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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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Military Intervention, Regional Organizations, and Host-State Consent [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Two ethical frameworks have dominated the discussion of organ donation for long: that of property rights and that of gift-giving. However, recent years have seen a drastic rise in the number of philosophical analyses of the meaning of giving and ...
Wippman, David
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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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