Accept no substitutes: A reply to Arnould and Rose. (March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Belk, Russell
• Is Part Of: Marketing theory. Volume 16:Number 1(2016:Mar.)
• Page Start: 143
• Page End: 149
• Publication Date: 2016-03
• Subjects: Sharing -- ownership -- gift-giving -- extended self; Marketing -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Marketing research -- Periodicals; Marketing research -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Marketing -- Periodicals; 381.01
• DOI: 10.1177/1470593115622720
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-5931

Abstract

Arnould and Rose raise some interesting issues regarding my sharing paper (Belk 2010). We agree on some points, but I find that most of their contentions are misguided and are based on misunderstandings of the original paper, social science, the extended self, and the theory of the gift. Their alternative offering of mutuality is also perplexingly self-contradictory, romanticized, and illogical. In this reply I point out issues on which we agree as well as reasons for disagreement.