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