Effect of Normative and Socioeconomic Power Bases on Japanese Marital Decision-Making Authority

作     者：Zsolt Varga Wirawan Dony Dahana Sotaro Katsumata 

作者机构：Osaka UniversityOsakaJapan 

出 版 物：《Management Studies》 (管理研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第7卷第2期

页      面：139-148页

学科分类：02[经济学] 

主　　题：family purchase decision consumer behavior sex role orientation durable product 

摘      要：According to normative-resource theory,the balance of marital power is influenced by the effect of socioeconomic resources and subcultural *** purpose of our study is to empirically test the effects of Japanese married individuals’comparative socioeconomic variables—education,age,occupation status,personal income,family income,urban/rural living area,years married,and the presence/number of children;and normative resources—the four dimensions of sex role orientation—on decision-making authority across the stages of automobile *** data of 500 demographically heterogeneous married individuals are analyzed by using a Lasso(least absolute shrinkage and selection operator)regression to select variables and to improve the accuracy of prediction and *** findings reveal that wives’authority is significantly influenced across all stages by their personal income and specific dimensions of their sex role *** the other hand,husbands’authority is not affected by their perception of role norms,but only by their *** to expectations,the effects of education,occupation,and employment status are not significant in any of the cases,opening a discussion for cross-cultural *** findings are interpreted and transformed into actionable items for managerial implications.