charitable activities, as a social issue have been considered a routine by benevolent people. in iran, this has been traced in old days, before accepting islam as an official religion by the people and the state.qajars1 period, as the author says, has left deep effects on setting up charities. ac­cording to charitable acts and its status in rasht, she has studied significant factors, influencin...

The idea that cooperative groups out-compete less cooperative groups has been proposed as a theoretical possibility for the evolution of cooperation through cultural group selection. Previous studies have found an association between increased cooperation and exposure to inter-group violence, but most have not been able to identify the specific target of cooperation and are based on correlation...

The economic argument for subsidizing charitable giving relies on the positive externalities of charitable activities, particularly from the religious institutions that are the largest recipients of giving. But the net external effects of subsidies to religious giving will also depend on a potentially important indirect effect as well: impacts on religious participation. Religious participation...

Over the past decade, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a major concern for firms in appeasing the skepticism of stakeholder groups including shareholders, consumers, and organizational members at various levels (Donaldson and Preston, 1995; Kapstein, 2001). Significant changes have occurred in the way in which firms would like to be regarded, as evidenced by the increased report...

Previous research finds that individuals tend to donate more to charitable and non-profit organizations when their activities are publicly recognized. In this research, we find that public recognition may discourage individual giving in certain cases. We conducted a field experiment to investigate how public recognition influences individual charitable giving. We designed five schemes to recogn...

Using data from charitable organizations in the US, authors have established that government grants to charities largely crowd out giving from other sources, but that this reduction is due mostly to reduced fundraising activities of the charity itself. We use much more detailed data from over 6000 charities in Canada, measured for up to 15 years, to provide valuable new insights into this pheno...

This research examines how the typeface design in a charitable appeal affects consumers' evaluations of ad and, turn, their willingness to engage advertised activities. We propose that typeface's simulation handwritten note creates sense connectedness information sender (e.g., organization, brand), which subsequently increases Six experiments, including laboratory and field studies, provide sup...

The article is devoted to the topical issue of formation normative-legal legislation on charitable activity in Ukraine because after all, charity and conditions transformational challenges has become an important part social legal life overcoming crisis phenomena economic, political, social, medical, etc. industries. purpose article: analyze regulation sphere Ukraine. During research, a specifi...