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Valeurs et pratiques associées au gratuit : émergence d'une nouvelle culture de consommation ?

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  • Alix Poels

    (IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12, UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12)

  • Sandrine Hollet-Haudebert

    (UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12, IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12)

Abstract

The paper is questioning the practices and values associated with "permanent" free goods and services instead of "occasional" ones through the free newspapers phenomenon. A qualitative study based on both observation and interviews put into relief the fact that free goods are valued according to three levels of analysis: individual, collective or societal. The results also tend to show the way people are constructing specific consumption practices peculiar to free newspapers.

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  • Alix Poels & Sandrine Hollet-Haudebert, 2012. "Valeurs et pratiques associées au gratuit : émergence d'une nouvelle culture de consommation ?," Post-Print hal-01123701, HAL.
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