Abstract Counterfeit-related studies have revealed motivational drives for counterfeit consumption. Little is known concerning the implications of consumers’ enduring and normative beliefs about proper standards conduct as determinants patronage. Drawing on Schwartz theory human values, experience literature construal level theory, this research investigates patronage by addressing three crucia...

Maps were part of both formal and informal education in early modern Europe, although they performed different functions and had a different status in each setting. While the more institutional curricula of grammar schools and universities treated geography as more important, with maps seen as useful only for their illustrative properties, informal market-driven and patronage-supported educatio...

Extant models of the financial patronage of Social Movement Organisations (SMOs) by private foundations exclusively use population density to account for competition. However, density fails to reveal how SMOs win grants whilst neglecting the strategic decision-making of foundation-investors. Here I recast patronage as a mutualistic network represented by a dynamic bipartite graph wherein SMOs a...