This article examines the characteristics of the organizational gift: a specific form of gift in which an organization or a series of organizations steps in between the donor and the donee. After a comparison with the Maussian gift, this article examines three key characteristics of the organizational gift: the role played by the organization which prevents direct contact but connects people at distance; the circuits of commerce thank to which resource move from the donator to the donee and, finally, the issue raised by the difficulty to give back in the absence of a direct link between the donator and the donee. The conclusive part stresses the role played by organizational gifts in producing a solidarity at distance between human beings.
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Steiner, P. (2017). A dádiva organizacional: Dádiva à distância e circuitos de troca. Tempo Social, 29(1), 23–43. https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2017.120253
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