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A Lifestyle Choice? Evaluating the Motives of Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Consumers

Williams, Colin - 2015

Reflecting the broader ‘cultural turn' in retail studies, recent surveys of do-it-yourself (DIY) consumers have emphasised human agency rather than economic constraints when explaining their motives for purchasing DIY products. The aim of this paper however, is to evaluate critically this...

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The Heterogeneity of Cash-In Handwork

Williams, Colin - 2015

To evaluate critically whether under a market system, monetary exchange is always and everywhere based on profit-seeking behaviour, this article examines cash-in-hand work, a form of activity conventionally conceptualised as low paid employment heavily imbued with profit motivations on the part...

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Participation in Alternative Retail Channels : A Choice or Necessity?

Williams, Colin - 2015

The view that alternative retail channels (i.e., informal and/or second-hand modes of goods acquisition) are used out of economic necessity by disadvantaged consumers has been recently opposed by cultural theorists who instead read such channels in agency-orientated terms as places of fun,...

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Social Exclusion in a Consumer Society : A Study of Five Rural Communities

Williams, Colin - 2015

The starting point of this paper is that the shift from a producer to a consumer society necessitates that social exclusion is investigated not only in relation to production but also consumption. To do this, case study evidence from interviews with 350 households in rural England is reported....

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The ‘Excluded Consumer’ : A Neglected Aspect of Social Exclusion?

Williams, Colin; Windebank, Jan E. - 2013

Social exclusion is usually considered in relation to the world of work. Here, we consider it in relation to consumption. To do this, we introduce the notion of the ‘excluded consumer’. In order to understand who defines themselves as excluded from normal consumption practices and how, the...

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Bribery : Behavioral Drivers of Distorted Decisions

Gneezy, Uri; Saccardo, Silvia; van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2018

the winner. Participants can bribe the referee. When the referee can keep only the winner’s bribe, bribes distort her … judgment. When the referee keeps the bribes regardless of the winner, bribes no longer influence her decision. A field … experiment in an Indian market confirms these results. These findings imply that our participants are influenced by bribes out of …

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Consumers' Complaints, the Nature of Corruption, and Social Welfare

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2014

very little attention in the literature on corruption. I study a model of corruption with incomplete information in which … consumers require a government service from officials who may be corrupt. A victim of corruption can report corrupt officials to … which no one reports corruption regardless of the proportion of honest supervisors although all lower-ranking officials are …

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Elements of public trust in the American food system : experts, organizations, and genetically modified food

Lang, John T. - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 41 (2013), pp. 133-144

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Elements of public trust in the American food system : experts, organizations, and genetically modified food

Lang, John T. - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 41 (2013), pp. 145-154

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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service : evidence from South Africa

Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b) investment/savings and (c) insurance/assurance Using FinScope dataset from South Africa over the period 2003 to 2009,ordered probit, generalized ordered probit and pseudo panel...

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