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Adla, Ludivine, Virginie Gallego-Roquelaure, and Ludivine Calamel. "Human resource management and innovation in SMEs." Personnel Review 49, no. 8 (December 18, 2019): 1519–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pr-09-2018-0328.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relation between human resource management (HRM) and innovation in small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) through gift/counter-gift exchanges. Design/methodology/approach Using the theory of the gift/counter-gift, the authors study the case of a French SME, specifically, a technological innovation project developed from 2013 to 2016. The authors structure the data and create a model using the Gioia method. Findings The results reveal that the logic of giving evolves in three key stages: freeing up gifts, mobilizing gifts and rethinking gifts. Originality/value These stages highlight the importance of an enabling organizational environment, gift/counter-gift relationships and the role of a number of HRM practices.
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Manolopoulos, Mark. "Gift Theory As Cultural Theory." Culture and Religion 8, no. 1 (March 2007): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610601157047.
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Hongguang, Luo. "Gift Theory as a Gift to the Future." Social Sciences in China 43, no. 3 (July 3, 2022): 193–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02529203.2022.2122217.
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Silber, Ilana F. "Bourdieu's Gift to Gift Theory: An Unacknowledged Trajectory." Sociological Theory 27, no. 2 (June 2009): 173–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9558.2009.01342.x.
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Wang, Yanan, Hong Wu, Chenxi Xia, and Naiji Lu. "Impact of the Price of Gifts From Patients on Physicians’ Service Quality in Online Consultations: Empirical Study Based on Social Exchange Theory." Journal of Medical Internet Research 22, no. 5 (May 5, 2020): e15685. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15685.
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Background Gift giving from patients to physicians, which is prohibited in traditional clinical settings in China, has been found to occur in online health communities. However, there is debate on the validity of online gifts since physicians gain an economic benefit. Moreover, the potential impact of these gifts, particularly with respect to the financial value of the gift, on the online consultation service quality remains unexplored. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the impact of gift price on the quality of physicians’ online consultation service. Insight into this impact is expected to help resolve existing debate on the appropriateness of the gift-giving practice in online consultations. Methods A dataset of 141 physicians and 4249 physician-patient interactions was collected from the Good Physician Online website, which is the largest online consultation platform in China. Based on social exchange theory, we investigated how gift price affects the quality of physicians’ online consultation service and how this impact changes according to the physician’s service price and number of all gifts received. Manual annotation was used to identify the information support paragraphs and emotional support paragraphs in the answers of physicians. The quality of the information support paragraphs, rather than the complete answer, was used to test the robustness of our model. Results Gift price had a positive impact on the quality of physicians’ online consultation service (β=4.941, P<.01). This impact was negatively mediated by both the physician’s service price (β=–9.245, P<.001) and the total number of gifts they received (β=–5.080, P<.001). Conclusions Gift price has a positive impact on physicians’ online behavior, although the impact varies among physicians.
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Cho, Kyu-hyung. "Sewol Disaster as a Gift from the Dead." Criticism and Theory Society of Korea 21, no. 1 (January 17, 2016): 93–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.19116/theory.2016.21.1.93.
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SON, Young-Chang. "Derrida's theory of gift." Journal of the Daedong Philosophical Association 76 (September 30, 2016): 104–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.20539/deadong.2016.76.05.
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SON, Young-Chang. "Derrida's theory of gift." Journal of the Daedong Philosophical Association 76 (September 30, 2016): 104–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.20539/deadong.2016.76.05.
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Huang, Li-Chun, and Yen-Chun Lin. "Who Decides to Give a Gift of Fresh Flowers? The Effects of Givers and Receivers on the Likelihood of Buying Fresh Flowers for Gifts." HortScience 50, no. 7 (July 2015): 1028–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.50.7.1028.
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As gifts are an important market sector for selling fresh flowers, this study investigated the effects of the characteristics associated with the dyads of givers and receivers on the probability of buying fresh flowers as gifts. Based on the theory of gift giving, several factors were hypothesized to influence the probability of buying fresh flowers as gifts, including givers’ financial capability and the perceived gift values of flowers, as well as knowledge of receiver’s needs, preferences, and difficulty to please. A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted to test the hypotheses. Results of the statistical analysis based on 394 valid questionnaires revealed that the perceived gift values of flowers, i.e., the economic value, functional value, social value, and expressive value, were the most important factors for the consumer decision of whether to buy fresh flowers as gifts. However, different gift values were emphasized for fresh flowers across different relational ties. For example, economic value was the key value when the receivers were parents, whereas social value and expressive value were emphasized when the receivers were romantic partners. Different from many previous studies, this study revealed that financial capability did not influence the likelihood of givers deciding to purchase fresh flowers for gifts. The study results implied that when promoting fresh flowers for gift use, the gift values of fresh flowers need to be emphasized to consumers.
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Emelyanov, Nikolay, and Greg Yudin. "Structural Position of the Priest in Gift-Exchange Systems." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 17, no. 3 (2018): 9–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2018-3-9-29.
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In this paper, we argue that the priest has a unique structural position to initiate and promote gift exchange. Gift exchange is an important mode of economic integration, one that prevents both cutthroat competition and a parasitic dependence on a centralized hierarchy. In dwelling on gift exchange theory, we demonstrate why the promotion of gifts is largely suppressed nowadays: Marcel Mauss’ second imperative of the gift, that is, the obligation to receive gifts, becomes inoperative under neoliberal capitalism. We rely on Marshall Sahlins’ and Chris Gregory’s analyses to argue that gift giving can be de-blocked by introducing the position of the ‘excluded participant’ who takes part in the gift exchange system but is known to have no self-interest. His presence enables other participants to accept gifts without being afraid of falling into personal bondage. We analyze the Christian theological ideas of the function of the priest in reaching the conclusion that priests are predisposed to take the position of the ‘excluded participant’. On one hand, the priest in persona Christi acts neither on his own behalf nor for his own self-interest, while on the other hand, he remains a member and governor of the community. Historical sources confirm that generating the gift exchange has always been the key activity of priests in Christian communities.
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Miłosz, Czesław. "Gift." World Literature Today 73, no. 4 (1999): 692. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40155080.
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Adla, Ludivine, and Virginie Gallego-Roquelaure. "The gift in shared HRM ethics in SMEs." Employee Relations: The International Journal 41, no. 5 (August 2, 2019): 997–1014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/er-06-2018-0171.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how the relationship of gifts/counter-gifts between actors enables us to build an HRM policy that we call “shared and ethical”. It is shared because it is co-constructed by both owner-manager and employees, and ethical because it is deemed desirable by the players and meets their expectations. This approach aims to make HRM more responsible in view of the commitments made by stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon the Maussian theory of gift/counter-gift, a longitudinal and retrospective study was conducted over a period of three years with a French SME. Findings The authors highlight two key stages in the gift process: the initial gift of the owner-manager, which is reflected in the establishment of a social pact, and the gap in perception between employees’ contribution and the counter-gift expected of the owner-manager. The authors show the complexity of the gift-chain by building a shared and ethical HRM and highlight the tensions identified between the existence of tools and mutual adjustments in HRM through gifts and counter-gifts. Originality/value Usual HRM in SMEs is centred on the owner-manager. On the contrary this research highlights how an SME can develop an alternative HRM. A longitudinal and retrospective study, carried out with a French SME, led to the construction of a process modelling of a shared HRM ethics.
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Michaels, Axel. "Gift and Return Gift, Greeting and Return Greeting in India." Numen 44, no. 3 (1997): 242–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568527971655922.
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AbstractIn a remarkable, often quoted footnote of his famous “Essai sur le don,” Marcel Mauss wonders that traditional Hindu law does not really prescribe the obligation to return a gift (Skt. dāna). According to some authors (J. Parry, Th. Trautmann, G. Raheja et al.) Mauss has demonstrated by this footnote his lack of a firm grasp of the theory of dāna since he did not notice that a dāna contains too much impurity or inauspiciousness to return to its donor. On the basis of striking parallels between the Śāstric theories of greeting (abhivādanadharma) and gift-giving (dānadharma), this paper questions the aspect of impurity in the gift and argues that kingly generosity or liberality and the meritious attitudes of asceticism have been the major source for giving gifts.
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Urakova, Alexandra. "“I do not want her, I am sure”." Nineteenth-Century Literature 74, no. 4 (March 2020): 448–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2020.74.4.448.
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Alexandra Urakova,“‘I do not want her, I am sure’: Commodities, Gifts, and Poisonous Gifts in Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (pp. 448–472) This essay focuses on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) in discussing the interrelation of sentimentality, slavery, and race. It asks what happens when a slave himself or herself becomes a gift in the way that Mr. Shelby buys Eliza as a present for his wife, and St. Claire seems to bestow Uncle Tom upon Eva and ultimately gives Topsy to his cousin Ophelia. Although much has been said about “sentimental property” or “sympathetic ownership” in Stowe, the instances of exchanging slaves as gifts in the novel have been surprisingly overlooked. Touching upon one of the novel’s important and precarious themes—the distinction between people and things—the aforementioned episodes not only contribute to our understanding of the novel’s gift economy but also invite us to revise the complex attitude to racial otherness in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I claim that while pursuing a sentimental ideology of the gift that comes to support racialist implications of its abolitionist rhetoric, Stowe’s novel also contains a radical potential of its critique embodied in the image of the poisonous gift of a slave child, Topsy, who figures as an unwelcome, wasteful, and repellent present. Concurring with critical opinion that Stowe’s racism is in the sentiment, this essay suggests that the novel’s unsentimental, explicitly racist metaphors paradoxically inform one of Stowe’s strongest antislavery arguments.
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Heins, Volker M., and Christine Unrau. "Refugees welcome: Arrival gifts, reciprocity, and the integration of forced migrants." Journal of International Political Theory 14, no. 2 (January 23, 2018): 223–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1755088217753232.
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Against competing political theories of the integration of immigrants, we propose to reframe the relationship between the populations of host countries and arriving refugees in terms of a neo-Maussian theory of gift exchange. Using the example of the European refugee crisis of 2015 and the welcoming attitude of significant parts of German civil society, we argue that this particular situation should be understood as epitomizing the trend toward internal transnationalism. Increasingly, the “international” is becoming part and parcel of the “domestic” sphere. Since Marcel Mauss was concerned with the question of how separate, culturally different communities can establish ties of solidarity and cooperation between each other, we use his work to answer key questions about the relations between international refugees and native citizens in their home countries: What are the expectations underlying gift-giving in the context of welcoming refugees? Should refugees feel obliged to repay the arrival gifts? How should we deal with the normative ambivalence of gift-giving and its potentially humiliating effects on those who receive gifts but are unable to reciprocate? Most importantly, how does gift theory help us to clarify the very concept of integration which is at the heart of recent debates on the ethics of immigration?
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Reindl-Kiel, Hedda. "Ottoman Messages in Kind." Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography 24 (June 8, 2022): 70–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-13631.
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The article brings the theory into question that emotions in the Ottoman realm centred on love and investigates whether and if, how, emotions played a role in the empire’s diplomatic gift traffic. The gift exchange with the Mamluks and Iran was largely influenced by specific political situations and feelings were mainly acted out in the domestic sphere. There were, however, several items, which as gifts signalled intimate friendship. Yet, the Ottomans utilised only by way of exception as diplomatic gifts. On the diplomatic stage the main function of presents was to convey messages, be it a thread, or be it an exhortation.
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Lewis, Sara M., Karim Vahed, Joris M. Koene, Leif Engqvist, Luc F. Bussière, Jennifer C. Perry, Darryl Gwynne, and Gerlind U. C. Lehmann. "Emerging issues in the evolution of animal nuptial gifts." Biology Letters 10, no. 7 (July 2014): 20140336. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0336.
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Uniquely positioned at the intersection of sexual selection, nutritional ecology and life-history theory, nuptial gifts are widespread and diverse. Despite extensive empirical study, we still have only a rudimentary understanding of gift evolution because we lack a unified conceptual framework for considering these traits. In this opinion piece, we tackle several issues that we believe have substantively hindered progress in this area. Here, we: (i) present a comprehensive definition and classification scheme for nuptial gifts (including those transferred by simultaneous hermaphrodites), (ii) outline evolutionary predictions for different gift types, and (iii) highlight some research directions to help facilitate progress in this field.
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Silber, Ilana F. "Gifts in Rites of Passage or gifts as rites of passage? Standing at the threshold between Van Gennep and Marcel Mauss." Journal of Classical Sociology 18, no. 4 (November 2018): 348–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795x18789017.
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This article revisits Arnold Van Gennep’s Rites de passage from the point of view of gift theory. Gifts emerge as quasi-omnipresent and in association with all sorts as well as all phases of rites of passage in Van Gennep’s text. However, he never explicitly addresses nor problematizes this pervasive connection between gifts and rites of passage. In contrast with Marcel Mauss’s later Essai sur le don, moreover, Rites de passage tends to relate to gift-exchange in either mere instrumental, economic terms, or as a rather simple and efficient, binding and “unifying” mechanism, while displaying none of Mauss’s complementary attentiveness to the agonistic as well as more complex and contradictory features of gift processes. Yet, precisely the ideas of margin and liminality for which Van Gennep’s became best known, but which did not seep at all into his own treatment of gifts, may be drawn upon to approach gift interactions as ritual processes, perhaps even rites of passage, with liminal phases and anti-structural features of their own kind. Such an angle of analysis happens to converge with current approaches to the gift that have underscored the part it may play in fraught dynamics of mutual definition and recognition in human interactions. It might also suggest new ways of interpreting the deep, recurrent association between gifts and rites of passage, which Rites de passage unwittingly contributed to highlight, but still needs to be further explored and conceptualized.
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Perysinakis, I. N. "Penelope's EEΔNA Again." Classical Quarterly 41, no. 2 (December 1991): 297–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000983880000447x.
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M. Finley in a well-known and influential article, established the theory that the bridegroom (or the potential suitors) offered gifts to the bride's father, which had their recompense in a counter-gift or dowry to the groom and the bride; these gifts must be equal in value.
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Galloway, Andrew. "LaЗamon's Gift." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 3 (May 2006): 717–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081206x142841.
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LaЗamon's Brut, from a moment in English literary and cultural history whose sense of tradition is particularly difficult for us to comprehend–a century and a half after the Norman Conquest, at the beginnings of Middle English–has a notoriously complex relation to England's past and traditions. This essay focuses on how The Brut takes a traditional social and literary preoccupation in pre-Conquest England, the lordly gift exchange, and expands it to explore a new range of spiritual gifts (or deceptive claims to them), including professional knowledge, counsel to the powerful, and literary fame. This expansion of the gift corresponds to broad cultural shifts as well as to more topical matters in King John's reign, the probable period of the poem's composition. The poem fashions itself as a gift in these volatile terms, repeatedly embracing an unknown literary future while it accurately limns some fundamental new features of Middle English literature. (AG)
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Townsend, Ann. "The Gift." Antioch Review 50, no. 3 (1992): 497. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4612541.
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Grecco, Stephen, and John Banville. "God's Gift." World Literature Today 76, no. 1 (2002): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40157110.
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Kinsella, John. "The Gift." World Literature Today 78, no. 3/4 (2004): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40158486.
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Chao, Matthew. "Intentions-Based Reciprocity to Monetary and Non-Monetary Gifts." Games 9, no. 4 (September 28, 2018): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/g9040074.
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Social preference models emphasize that perceived intentions motivate reciprocity. However, laboratory tests of this theory typically manipulate perceived intentions through changes in wealth resulting from a sacrifice in pay by another. There is little evidence on whether reciprocity occurs in response to perceived intentions alone, independent of concurrent changes in pay and giver sacrifice (and any associated guilt from that sacrifice). This paper addresses this gap in the literature by implementing a modified dictator game where gifts to dictators are possible, but where gift transactions are also stochastically prevented by nature. This leads to instances of observed gift-giving intentions that yield no sacrifice or change in outcomes. In addition, this study uses both monetary and non-monetary gifts; previous studies typically use only monetary incentives, even though real-world applications of this literature often involve non-monetary incentives such as business or marketing gifts. The results show that on average, dictators reciprocated strongly to just the intention to give a gift, and they also reciprocated similarly to both monetary and non-monetary gifts. These results are consistent with intentions-based models of social preferences and with much of the marketing literature on business gifts.
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Darr, Asaf. "Gift giving in mass consumption markets." Current Sociology 65, no. 1 (July 9, 2016): 92–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392115622977.
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What types of social relationships and expressions of moral economy does gift giving foster in mass consumption markets? Approaching this issue through the literature on gift giving in advanced capitalist contexts and the sociology of markets, this study presents gifting as a micro-foundational element in contemporary markets. Analysis of 50 interviews and documentation of daily sales encounters in a computer chain store in Tel-Aviv, Israel, found that buyers and sellers there exchange three types of gifts (contractual, closing and post-sale gifts) ordered along a continuum according to degree of subordination to the market economy and logic. Empirical investigation of four research propositions derived from the literature reveals that marketplace gifting fosters various types of relationships, both horizontal and vertical. The study suggests that gifting helps constitute ephemeral ties during brief sales encounters through the invocation of archetypical social roles, which encapsulate types of social relationships with others. The discussion highlights the contribution of this study to the sociology of markets and to gift theory and presents questions for future research.
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Colella, Silvana. "GIFTS AND INTERESTS:JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMANAND THE PURITY OF BUSINESS." Victorian Literature and Culture 35, no. 2 (June 29, 2007): 397–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150307051558.
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IN HIS INTRODUCTIONtoThe Question of the Gift, Mark Osteen claims that “economism … is the land mine of gift theory” (5). For many theorists, he explains, gift-giving and market exchanges share the same forms of calculation; for others, more specifically, self-interest is the “objective truth” of the gift. The challenge that gift discourse has taken up in recent years is how to rethink reciprocity, altruism, and generosity while at the same time avoiding both the “Scylla of sentimentality and the Charybdis of economism” (Osteen 31). In this paper I discuss Dinah Mulock Craik's mid-Victorian bestseller,John Halifax, Gentleman(1856), using gift theory (or some insights thereof) as my main analytical tool. Why is gift theory relevant to the understanding of a novel that openly extols the advantages of self-help and economic individualism?
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Jia, Susan (Sixue), and Banggang Wu. "One Good Turn Deserves Another: Antecedents of Online Karaoke Paid Gift-Sending from Social Exchange Perspectives." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 16, no. 7 (September 23, 2021): 2515–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jtaer16070138.
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Understanding the dynamics of online karaoke virtual gift sending helps maximize its utility for all participants, including viewers, broadcasters, and platforms. However, extant paid gift-sending studies lack an integrated theoretical explanation of its incentives as well as practical implications that can facilitate the quantifiable implementation of service improvement. This study has successfully uncovered the motivation of paid gift-sending in an online karaoke context from a social exchange perspective using social exchange theory. By observing the activities of 11,640 online karaoke users over one year, it was discovered that their gift-sending behaviors adhere to the patterns of more-follower-more-gift-sending and receive-more-send-more. Moreover, such patterns are more pronounced for collaborative users and are accentuated over time. Theoretically, this study extends the scope of social commerce studies from B2C to C2C scenarios with more complicated interpersonal dynamics. Meanwhile, managers are advised to encourage following, stimulate collaboration, inject additional virtual gifts into the “market”, and retain their customers to generate long-term profits.
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D’Este, Gabriella. "Tilting Theory: A Gift of Representation Theory to Mathematics." Mathematical Intelligencer 39, no. 3 (September 2017): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00283-017-9733-y.
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ZHAO, Weirong. "Luther's theological understanding of the essence of music: music is a gift of God." International Journal of Sino-Western Studies 21 (December 9, 2021): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.37819/ijsws.21.141.
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Compared with his peers and successors of the Reformation, Luther had a more positive and tolerant view of music. " [Music] is a gift of God and not of man" is the cornerstone of Luther's music view and also his theological understanding of the essence of music. Luther's theology of the essence of music is quite original and closely related to Luther's understanding of grace, gift, and creation. In Luther's view, God created the world and all things through the world and all things speak and self-interpret himself, the universe and all things emit their own sound and harmony, that is, their music, God through his gift to share his divinity and eternal power. This article attempts to explore the theological origin and meaning of Luther’s famous musical theology proposition from Luther’s creation theory and the theological understanding of grace and gift, as well as the manifestation and acceptance of musical gifts as genius and creativity.
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Chester, Tessa Rose. "Gift." Hudson Review 52, no. 4 (2000): 614. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3853275.
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د. مشاري عبدالعزيز الموسى, د. مشاري عبدالعزيز الموسى. "Badi‘iyyat in Praise of the Prophet: Gift Exchange Theory." journal of King Abdulaziz University Arts And Humanities 28, no. 13 (May 8, 2020): 236–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4197/art.28-13.8.
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this study approaches badi‘iyyat in light of gift exchange theory by Marcel Mauss. It tries to solve the problem of badi‘iyyat definition and their goal. The value of the study lies in the new practical way of applying this theory on badi‘iyyat, which will pave the way for future studies to apply the same theory on other literary texts. It begins with exploring different notions of understanding badi‘iyyat and their goal. The study proposes a definition of them. Then, it moves to apply the gift exchange theory on three of badi‘iyyat to observe their potential to be a reward or gift, the textual aspects that poets have added to enhance their badi‘iyyat as a reward or gift, and how the poets have increased the value of badi‘iyyat by employing metapoetry and mythic concordance. The study then reaches its conclusion.
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Duffy, John, and Daniela Puzzello. "Gift Exchange versus Monetary Exchange: Theory and Evidence." American Economic Review 104, no. 6 (June 1, 2014): 1735–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.6.1735.
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We study the Lagos and Wright (2005) model of monetary exchange in the laboratory. With a finite population of sufficiently patient agents, this model has a unique monetary equilibrium and a continuum of non-monetary gift exchange equilibria, some of which Pareto dominate the monetary equilibrium. We find that subjects avoid the gift exchange equilibria in favor of the monetary equilibrium. We also study versions of the model without money where all equilibria involve non-monetary gift exchange. We find that welfare is higher in the model with money than without money, suggesting that money plays a role as an efficiency enhancing coordination device. ( JEL C92, D12, E40, Z13)
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Heath, Teresa Pereira, Caroline Tynan, and Christine Ennew. "Accounts of self-gift giving: nature, context and emotions." European Journal of Marketing 49, no. 7/8 (July 13, 2015): 1067–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-03-2014-0153.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a contextualized view of participants’ accounts of self-gift consumer behaviour (SGCB) throughout the consumption cycle, from the motivations to the emotions that follow. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses an interpretive approach, focused on participants’ constructions of meanings, using 99 critical incident technique interviews, which followed 16 in-depth interviews. Findings – This paper identifies the following self-gift motivations: To Reward Myself (and Others); To celebrate; To remember or get closer; To forget or part; To feel loved or cheered up; and To enjoy life. It also uncovers a compensatory/therapeutic dimension in most self-gifts. The authors identify changes in emotional responses to SGCB over time, and suggest a relationship between these emotions and the contexts that drive self-gifts. Self-gifts are conceptualized as pleasure-oriented, symbolic and special consumption experiences, which are self-directed, or both self- and others-directed; perceived by the consumer to be justified by the contexts in which they occur; and driven and followed by context-dependent emotions. Originality/value – This manuscript offers novel insights into participants’ uses of both SGCB and the act of labelling purchases “self-gifts”. It uncovers how consumers are concerned with accounting for indulgent spending and how this problematizes the concept of “self-gift”. It challenges the idea of a single context for SGCB, showing how interacting motivations explain it. It also introduces a temporal dimension to self-gift theory by considering emotional responses at different times. Finally, it offers a new conceptualization of and theoretical framework for SGCB.
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Bang, Peter Fibiger. "Gift-Exchange." Classical Review 55, no. 2 (October 2005): 579–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/clrevj/bni316.
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Mish, Jeanetta Calhoun. "Continuing the Gift." World Literature Today 91, no. 3 (2017): 34–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2017.0185.
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Carpenter, Bogdana. "The Gift Returned." World Literature Today 73, no. 4 (1999): 631. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40155068.
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Gross, Pamela. "Gift of Tongues." Sewanee Review 121, no. 2 (2013): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sew.2013.0056.
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Hart, Henry. "Poetry as Gift." Sewanee Review 122, no. 1 (2014): 55–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0033.
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Beehler, Brianna. "The Doll’s Gift." Nineteenth-Century Literature 75, no. 1 (June 2020): 24–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2020.75.1.24.
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Brianna Beehler, “The Doll’s Gift: Ventriloquizing Bleak House” (pp. 24–49) This essay offers a new reading of the split narrative in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House (1852–53). Previous critics of the novel’s split narrative have primarily focused on the unequal knowledge and authority positions of the all-knowing third-person narrator and the unknowing first-person narrator, Esther Summerson. This division, however, does not fully account for the apparent slips and narrative exchanges between the two narrators, in which one narrator takes on the voice or knowledge position of the other. This essay takes up Robert Newsom’s suggestion that the only way to explain these “slips” is to conclude that Esther Summerson writes not only her own narration, but also that of the third-person narrator. However, the essay further argues that Esther uses the third-person narration to ventriloquize the voice of her mother, Lady Dedlock, in an effort to provide herself with the emotional support otherwise denied her. Readers may better understand Esther’s ventriloquism of the third-person narration by tracing how it mirrors her early daily ritual with her doll, in which she assumed both narrative positions at once. Object relations and gift theory further show how this dialogue creates a bond between the two narrations. Thus, characters and family structures that appear in the third-person narration and that may appear distant from Esther are actually her meditations on alternative maternal and familial relationships.
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Syaidiqi, Ichsan, and Latipah Nasution. "Apakah Mengembalikan Hadiah Hasil Kejahatan, Meniadakan Proses Penyidikan? (Analisis Kasus penerima hadiah Doni Salmanan)." ADALAH 6, no. 2 (July 1, 2022): 61–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/adalah.v6i2.26915.
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Since the discovery of the fraudulent investment case carried out by Doni Salmanan, law enforcement officers then confiscated the financial assets involved in the case. In addition to the ownership of luxury homes, financial assets in banks, to gifts that were given to a number of public figures. There were also several public figures who then voluntarily returned the gifts to police investigators, but the question arose as to whether returning the items could abolish the ongoing legal process. This paper tries to examine these events from the perspective of criminal law theory, law enforcement, and jurisprudence. Then it was found that returning the goods/gifts resulting from a crime does not necessarily negate or abolish the ongoing legal process, but it can be considered by the judge in deciding the case. In addition, for gifts that are still in the possession of the recipient of the gift, it is possible that the gift will be confiscated by investigators for the sake of investigation.
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Naquin, Charles E., Terri R. Kurtzberg, and Lisa Lewin. "High Tech Versus High Touch." Cornell Hospitality Quarterly 58, no. 1 (July 10, 2016): 108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1938965516643755.
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Previous research in the area of how individuals respond to hard-copy versus electronic communications indicates inconsistent results. Although media richness theory suggests that there is no theoretical distinction between physical, hard-copy and electronic, text-based communications, other research has shown that an individual’s response varies depending on the type of communication. The present research explores the reaction to unexpected opportunities as a function of how the communications are received—either via email or as a hard-copy. Results indicate that participants were equally satisfied to receive either an electronic or a physical gift certificate; however, they redeemed them in unequal amounts. Participants who received a physical gift card were more likely to redeem their gifts and were more likely to spend a greater amount of the total gift card than those who received an electronic one.
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Mouakhar-Klouz, Dania, Alain d’Astous, and Denis Darpy. "I’m worth it or I need it? Self-gift giving and consumers’ self-regulatory mindset." Journal of Consumer Marketing 33, no. 6 (September 12, 2016): 447–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcm-05-2015-1417.
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Purpose The aim of the research presented in this paper is to enhance our understanding of self-gift giving behavior. Self-regulatory theory is used as a conceptual support to achieve this objective. The main idea that is explored is that consumers’ self-gift purchase intentions vary across contexts and situations to the extent that these are compatible or not with their self-regulatory mindset, whether it is chronic or situational. Design/methodology/approach Two studies, using a scenario-based experiment, were conducted to investigate the effects that regulatory focus has on consumers’ intentions to buy themselves a gift. Findings The results support the proposition that the chronic form of regulatory focus in success and failure situations has a significant impact on the intention to purchase a gift to oneself and show that the situational form of regulatory focus has an influence on self-gift purchase intention as well. They also confirm that situations that are congruent with consumers’ self-regulatory mindset lead to stronger self-gift purchase intentions. Originality/value The main contribution of this research lies in delineating the role that some specific dispositional and situational factors play in shaping consumers’ perceptions of success and failure events and how this impacts the eventual purchase of a gift to oneself. This contrasts with previous research on self-gift giving, where success and failure situations are assumed to be perceived similarly by consumers. Marketing managers wishing to stimulate consumers’ propensity to buy themselves gifts should consider using regulatory focus as a segmentation basis. Marketing communications should be adapted to consumers’ self-regulatory mindset.
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Latinytė, Rūta. "Not a Gift: Phenomenological Research of Everyday Experience." Tautosakos darbai 57 (June 1, 2019): 34–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.51554/td.2019.28426.
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By using approaches of phenomenological anthropology and research of everyday experience, the author of the article introduces a possibility to study practices of gift giving and receiving, occurring in modern social life. Special attention is paid to a peculiar case of the gift giving – when a gift is not given, and the act of gift giving does not take place.Every instance of gift giving or losing presents a unique moment in the life of an individual experiencing the world. The author analyzes descriptions of experience and qualitative unstructured interviews with commentaries, conducted especially for the purposes of this study, as well as her own experiences, which is typical for the method of phenomenological research. Various experiences of gift giving that did not take place are presented in the article. The first one can be defined as refusing of the gift – when an individual bringing a whiskey bottle in gratitude for his boss’s help was kicked out from the latter’s office. The second case comprises instances of memory loss from the perspective of the gift giver and the receivers. Numerous interviewees were not able to remember any gifts received from their spouses, although the gift exchange in the family was practiced during holidays every year. However, the gifts that some close persons had forgotten to give, or that were repeatedly given, present quite another matter from the point of view of the giver that still remembers them. The third case comprises the gift that was meant yet not given – a work of art dedicated to a well-known musician, but staying in the interviewee’s home. The fourth case centers on a dramatic story of a woman who abnormally accumulated stuff in her house during her whole life, but has not once given anything to her family. After her tragical demise in a fire, her family members found various things at her home and reshaped their personal attitude towards her, making the author to reconsider her attitude as well.The analysis reveals ways in which the ungiven gifts both reflect and affect the interpersonal relationships, and possible meaning and place of these experiences in people’s memory. The impossibility of the gift giving is recognized in every story as a state of uneasiness, as a certain lapse in time. It indicates a shift in perception of the interpersonal relationship and highlights the necessity of re-evaluation of the relationship that was supposed to be established by the ungiven gift.The ungiven gift puts people off their stride, depriving them of the possibility of time for a while: it makes them understand that the Other is actually different from that Other, who the subject imagined existing in their mutual relationship. The rational consciousness feels lost, and until it finds another “I” in relation to the Other, the only possible relationship is the one between “I” and “Myself”, which is separated from the world, time, and existence. However, the individual can move from the state of passive helplessness and adopt an active role in the mastership game. The concept of the mastership game presupposes an objective to influence the world that does not belong to the individual like the Other, but can be appropriated as a masterfully created game instead, subsumed by way of recognizing the meaning.The mastership game is a creative movement that presupposes searching for a new meaningful form. Thus, the gift is also a creative act: while being unable to influence the Other, the subject becomes engaged in a game and replaces the intersubjective relationship with a connection between the subject and the object (gift). Therefore, two mutually immanent subjects are related by the gift that makes their interrelationship meaningful; or, likewise, become separated, when the gift is not given.
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Ki, Wing-Chi. "Gift Theory and the Book of Job." Theological Studies 67, no. 4 (December 2006): 723–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004056390606700401.
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Cross, Jamie. "The Coming of the Corporate Gift." Theory, Culture & Society 31, no. 2-3 (January 23, 2014): 121–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276413499191.
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Corporate gifts – from philanthropic donations to individual reward schemes – attract considerable attention from scholars for the kinds of moral, economic and political logics that motivate them. This article considers the gifts that transnational corporations give to producers and draws from Marilyn Strathern’s writings on exchange and personhood in order to reverse dominant analyses. Focused on the gifting of gold coins to industrial workers at a global manufacturing unit in India, it brings together field-based observations with a diverse field of literature on the gift in anthropology. Against an analysis that sees the corporate gift harnessed directly to a corporate bottom line, this article proposes an alternative accounting that uses Strathern’s notions of ‘elicitation’, ‘revelation’ and ‘detachment’ to explore the contours of knowledge, personhood and relationality in the transaction. If corporate gifts have powerful effects, the article argues, it is because they establish difference between the person of the giver and the person of the recipient and because they materialize actions, desires and capacities that accrue to and transform the recipients rather than simply because they are vessels for the interests of global capital. As social theory confronts the political economy of corporate giving, Strathern’s writings prompt provocative questions about agency and power that challenge the hegemonic status of the modern corporation.
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Attree, Lizzy. "Beauty's Gift." English Academy Review 26, no. 2 (October 2009): 104–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131750903336270.
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McCartney, J., H. Kokko, K. G. Heller, and D. T. Gwynne. "The evolution of sex differences in mate searching when females benefit: new theory and a comparative test." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1731 (September 28, 2011): 1225–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1505.
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Sexual selection is thought to have led to searching as a profitable, but risky way of males obtaining mates. While there is great variation in which sex searches, previous theory has not considered search evolution when both males and females benefit from multiple mating. We present new theory and link it with data to bridge this gap. Two different search protocols exist between species in the bush-cricket genus Poecilimon (Orthoptera): females search for calling males, or males search for calling females. Poecilimon males also transfer a costly nuptial food gift to their mates during mating. We relate variations in searching protocols to variation in nuptial gift size among 32 Poecilimon taxa. As predicted, taxa where females search produce significantly larger nuptial gifts than those where males search. Our model and results show that search roles can reverse when multiple mating brings about sufficiently strong material benefits to females.
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Zhu, Yimin, and Peipei Lin. "Hedonic or utilitarian." Journal of Contemporary Marketing Science 2, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 120–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcmars-01-2019-0008.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the product type (hedonic product and utilitarian product) and reward type (hedonic gift and utilitarian gift) influence customer referral likelihood in referral reward program. Design/methodology/approach The authors test the effect of the product type and reward type on referral likelihood through two studies. Study 1 produces a 2 (product type: hedonic product and utilitarian product) × 2 (reward type: hedonic gift and utilitarian gift) factorial design to test H1, H2 and H3, that is, the effect of the product type and reward type on referral likelihood and their interaction effect. On the basis of study 1, study 2 will select different subjects, different products and different incentive allocation schemes to test H1, H2 and H3 again. Findings The results are as follow: first, the product type has significant influences on referral likelihood. Compared with a utilitarian product, customers are more likely to make referrals when consuming a hedonic product. Second, the product type and reward type have significant interactions to referral likelihood. When rewarded a hedonic gift, customers who consumed the hedonic product have great willing to make referrals; however, when rewarded the utilitarian gift, customer who consumed the utilitarian product have great willing to make referrals. Originality/value The authors’ findings contribute to the literature of consumers’ recommendation in the following aspects. First, from the perspective of enterprises which launch referral reward program, the present research demonstrates the product type (hedonic product and utilitarian product) and reward type (hedonic gift and utilitarian gift) influence customer referral likelihood. Previous studies discuss attributes of product that influence consumers’ referral likelihood, such as product sensitivity (Kornish and Li, 2010), product involvement (Zhu et al., 2011), brand strength (Ryu and Feick, 2007) and price (Xiao et al., 2011). However, few studies focus on the hedonic and utilitarian attributes of products and explore their impact on the willingness to recommend. This paper makes a useful supplement to the research gap. Most previous studies simply divide the type of reward into tangible and intangible (Shi and Wojnicki, 2007), cash and coupon (Wang, 2010) or cash and gift (Huang et al., 2013). This paper enriches the research on reward types and refines the types of gifts in a referral reward program. The present research divides the type of reward into hedonic gifts and utilitarian gifts, and applies benefit congruency frameworks (Chandon et al., 2000), attitude theory (Eagly and Chaiken, 1993) and over-justification effect (Deci and Ryan, 1985).
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Huebner, Chris K. "Can a Gift Be Commanded? Theological Ethics without Theory by Way of Barth, Milbank and Yoder." Scottish Journal of Theology 53, no. 4 (November 2000): 472–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930600056982.
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In a recent series of essays, John Milbank has continued his impressive project of narrating a theological path beyond secular reason in both its modern and postmodern versions by attempting to develop an ‘ontology of the gift.’ In order to overcome the ontology of violence in which he claims that secular rationality is rooted, Milbank argues for the need to reclaim a specifically Christian understanding of ethics, and suggests that the best resources for doing so can be found in the logic of gift and gift-exchange. Among other things, he claims that the logic of gift involves a rejection of the notion of command, a notion whose theological significance has perhaps been expressed most forcefully by Karl Barth. It is therefore appropriate to examine Milbank's appeal to the ontology of the gift as an objection to Barth's divine command ethics. Given his construal of ethics in terms of command and obligation, it might be suggested that Barth's ethics is problematic to the extent that it retains the structure of the Kantian categorical imperative. At the same time, however, it is noteworthy that Barth develops his account of the command of God in the context of gift, and in particular the specifically theological context of the gracious gift of God in Jesus Christ. Such a combination of command and gift has led some to suggest that Barth's ethics is actually significantly anti-Kantian in structure.
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Murphy, Margueritte. "THE ETHIC OF THE GIFT IN GEORGE ELIOT'SDANIEL DERONDA." Victorian Literature and Culture 34, no. 1 (March 2006): 189–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150306051114.
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In short, this [the exchange of gifts] represents an intermingling. Souls are mixed with things; things with souls. Lives are mingled together, and this is how, among persons and things so intermingled, each emerges from their own sphere and mixes together. This is precisely what contract and exchange are.—Marcel Mauss,The Gift