Essays on the self-interested déterminants of prosocial behaviors : the case of charitable giving
(2018)
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- Although charitable giving is not a recent issue, economic and humanitarian upheavals have led to a renewed interest for the topic in recent years. Beyond the institutional changes to which charities have been exposed, a shift in donors has also forced organizations to reconsider their fundraising methods. The limited efforts to integrate both altruistic and egoistic motives of generosity and the static perspective adopted when trying to model charitable giving have been recently pointed in the literature as key priorities for future research in the field. To address these issues, the present doctoral dissertation offers a contextualized, dynamic and integrative understanding of the decision-making process of donations. Combining four essays, this research explores how the motivations of generosity evolve over time and empirically investigates the interactions between self- and other-oriented determinants of charitable donations. This doctoral research contributes to several debates on the respective influence of personal and more altruistic determinants of generosity, on the public dimension of the behavior as well as on the role of personal feelings on the decision to donate.
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Denis, E. (2018). Essays on the self-interested déterminants of prosocial behaviors : the case of charitable giving. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/27999