Do Children Influence Parents Purchase ? A Study on Holiday Decision

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suchita Vishwakarma ◽  
Ranjanabh Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Indian Children ◽  
Demographic Differences ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Set Up

This paper attempts to understand the role of Indian children in the modern society, who despite of having undergone multiple socio-economic changes, are still trapped in the patriarchal grip. The paper tries to understand the difference in role of children owing to the cultural and demographic differences. In different cultural set up, children are perceived differently. Hence demographic characteristics of children become a basic parameter to evaluate the consumerism behavior of children. Thus this paper tries to investigate the level of influence that children have on parent’s decision making through the mode of literature review. The paper concludes that there is a difference in level of influence owing to the demographic factors, which in turn is expressed and exerted differently on parents to finally get the purchase done in their favor.

Structuring and Managing Supply Network

2016 ◽  
pp. 341-353
Author(s):  
Zheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Supply Network ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
Risk And Crisis Management ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Business Practitioners ◽  
Function Relationship ◽  
Emerging Topics

The concept of supply network has extended supply chain across national borders towards globalization. The aim of this chapter is to provide researchers, business practitioners and university students a picture of the architecture of supply networks. By analyzing two main trends of studies in the field of supply network management, components of supply network are classified into structural and infrastructural factors. Also a comparison is made to identify the difference between supply network and traditionally factory-based manufacturing system. Based on the literature review, a conceptual framework is further proposed which describes the supply network from four essential perspectives: Role/function, Relationship/alliance, Configuration/reconfiguration, and Risk and crisis management. After presenting detailed models and decision making areas of each perspective, suggestions are given on some emerging topics.

scholarly journals ADULT EDUCATION IN UKRAINE: PRECONDITIONS OF FORMATION, PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Larysa Lukianova
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Flexible Structures ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Flexible System ◽  
Cultural Transformations

Socio-economic changes in the late 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century, technological and socio-cultural transformations at global and local levels had a significant impact on de-termining the role of adult education for modern Ukrainian society and outline its further development vec-tor. The need for mass professional retraining of adults to ensure socio-economic reforms, as well as the for-mation of Ukraine’s civil society, is prompted by the development of an adult continuous education flexible system to respond to the whole society’s challenges and the demands of its specific layers. The author states that Ukraine has a rich historical experience of adult education (from weekend schools, re-education schools, part-time universities, universities for workers and peasants to the creation of research institutions in the system of the National Academy of Educational Sciences, engaged in research and theoretical analysis of an-dragogy and departments of andragogy at higher education institutions). Contemporary landscape of adult education in the country has been analyzed. According to the author, the situation is ambiguous and charac-terized by both positive (awareness of the role of adult education) and negative (reduction of terms of study, commercialization of many adult education pathways, funding cutbacks) features. However, positive changes prevail: branching of goals and education fields; diversification of educational services, development of adult education flexible structures that can meet modern requirements. The system of adult education in Ukraine has been analyzed. According to structural features, it has formal and informal components. The emphasis is placed on the role of non-formal education. The author concludes that adult education in Ukraine is gaining more importance in modern society.

scholarly journals CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM AND POPULAR CULTURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
Ankita Singh
Keyword(s):  
Credit Card ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Soap Industry ◽  
Fight Club ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Compulsive Buying Disorder

A product’s utility has evolved over time. In today’s world, the commodities possess the power to define us. Every product that we own today, through its branding, reflects our social status, values and vice versa. It is difficult to refute the negative influence of capitalism that we witness in form of obsession with possession. The aim of the paper is to study the extent to which the products of the modern society like the protagonists in the following two movies suffer; whether it is possible to imagine an end of consumerism and not the world or has it become an inherent part of the late capitalist world in which there is no completeness but the perennial emergence of substitutes (objects). This paper studies the aforementioned issues through the movies “Fight Club” and “Confessions of a Shopaholic”. The first section of the paper uses the case of soap industry as the foundation and analyses “Fight Club”. The second section examines the role of credit card companies in compulsive buying disorder through “Confessions of a Shopaholic”. Despite the similarity between the two movies on the grounds of the modern world “suffering”, the paper highlights the difference in their treatment of the main theme of consumerism and links it to the gender politics. The final section draws a comparison between the endings of the two movies and investigates the premise of disorder in “Fight Club” and its existential threat to capitalism.

scholarly journals A Literature Review: Stress Management in The Family of Intensive Care Patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Gusti Pandi Liputo ◽  
Zulfainda Eka PU ◽  
Nisa Aruming Sila ◽  
Zaenal Abidin ◽  
Alwan Revai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Complex Case ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Intensive Care Patients ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
The Family

ABSTRACT Introduction: Intensive care unit is a unit with a complex case and a stressor strainer. When patients enter intensive care families have a variety of stressors such as rapid decision making and costs are not small. The role of nurse as educator is very important in reducing family anxiety with patients treated in intesive units. Mothers of intensive care babies feel a great deal of anxiety over their child's condition, so there needs to be a good system support for the healing of her and her baby. Various ways nurses do in reducing stress experienced by the patient's family such as good communication between nurses and families of patients with intensive care. This review aims to get a picture of stress management that can be done on the family of intensive care patients. Methods: A literature review was conducted in the fields of ebscho, sience direct, elseiver, sage journals, scopus, and proquest, limited the range of the last 10 years from 2007-2017. The final sample included 18 articles. Results: The literature found that the causes of family stressors include rapid decision-making, fear of family emergency conditions, maintenance costs and length of care. Good communication and good information and skill support can decrease the stress experienced by intensive care patients' families. Conclussions: Intensive care is a unit with high complexity, unstable conditions and sophisticated technology. Conditions that require rigorous monitoring not only cause stressors for the patient, but become a stressor for the patient's family.

scholarly journals PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FROM THE STANDPOINT OF DETERMINISTIC SOCIAL SENSE (ARCHETYPAL APPROACH)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (14) ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
Aleksej Valentinovich Dovgan’
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The People ◽  
Social Adaptability ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Moment

The features and the role of deterministic social sense in the context of the archetypical approach are considered in the article; the specifics of the existence of the above-mentioned phenomenon in relation to public administration are presented. The nature, principles of the functioning of archetypes as a direct, pragmatic decision-making factor of the personality are represented. It is argued that archetypes are significantly different from those historically established or transformed by human characters, whose senses are not mentally inherited, but transmitted from generation to generation. The emphasis is placed on the relevance of the archetypal approach for research in the management sector in general and deterministic social sense — in particular. The author emphasizes that the archetype is a direct pragmatic factor in personal decision-making, acting as a created internal complication that ensures the course of certain socially deter mined processes in the human brain. Attention is focused on the continuity of the concepts of “sense” and “culture”: from the moment of alienation of a person from the surrounding natural world, all thoughts, created things, found and used means and methods of actions are given meanings. Thus, the decision, that is, the choice, appears to be the natural basis for an individual’s being in ontological reality, acting as a necessary precondition for structuring his administrative, legal and so on needs in modern society. Further investigation of the archetypal approach to the study of the phenomenon of deterministic social sense is seen in the study of the features of citizens’ reflection on the images and symbols created by the government in order to achieve some behavioral manifestations in the latter, allowing more deeply and clearly understand the needs of the people, and also to update the relevant role of public administration in his life. At the same time, from the standpoint of social, psychological, culturological pragmatics etc., the archetype is the primary form of sense stratified according to the types described by Jung. This differentiation of this phenomenon is natural, due to its universalism, which allows us to speak about the degree of social adaptability of the latter.

scholarly journals Jamaica—The Transformation Towards Sustainability of an Island Economy Under Austerity Measures

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-268
Author(s):  
Ariel Macaspac Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Government Official ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Local Stakeholders

AbstractThis chapter diverges from the previous case studies. In addition to a literature review and qualitative interviews of local stakeholders, this chapter also contextualizes sustainable, low-carbon transformation by using an innovative experiment, where participants played the role of a decision-making government official committing to decisions under specific conditions (e.g., imposed austerity measures). When applied to Jamaica, the specific parameters of a scenario are assumed and through solution-oriented role playing, the process of decision-making is analyzed.

The Relationships between Top Management Demographic Characteristics, Rational Decision Making, Environmental Munificence, and Firm Performance

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 999-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Goll ◽  
Abdul A. Rasheed
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Rational Decision ◽  
Environmental Munificence ◽  
Rational Decision Making ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationships between top management demographics, rational decision making (RDM), munificence, and firm performance. We expect top management demographics to influence rational decision making, and rational decision making to influence firm performance. In addition, we hypothesize a moderating effect of environmental munificence on the rational decision making-firm performance relationship. To test these hypotheses, we conducted a survey that measured RDM. Top management demographic characteristics, environmental munificence, and firm performance were collected from archival sources. We examined the relationships between RDM and top management age, tenure, and education level, using regression analyses. The results of this study provide support for the assertion that top management demographic characteristics influence decision making, and for the role of environmental munificence as a moderator in the relationship between decision making and organizational performance.

Pint-size powerhouses: a qualitative study of children’s role in family decision-making

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
National Capital Region ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Indian Children ◽  
Consumer Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Children’S Voices ◽  
Cultural Entity

Purpose Children are becoming consumers at younger ages; a variety of influences and experiences shape their as well as their family’s consumer habits. With the changing economic scenario, power has been shifting toward the new emerging economies. These nations are rapidly developing, where the children population is high, parents are young and have money to spend. This study aims at exploring family’s consumer decision-making process to understand the influencing role of young Indian children in a family setting. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes young children and their parents through semi-structured interviews with the families. The phenomenological interviews with six families in the National Capital Region of India capturing 23 informants were conducted. Findings Children’s influence is omnipresent, in all the product categories as well as buying stages. For products of their direct use like books, clothes and snacks items, they are very much involved and their level of influence is highest from both the parents’ and children’s perception. Role of siblings and joint collaboration with the grandparents are also parts of the findings. Research limitations/implications This study attempts to actively listen to young children’s voices. However, it is acknowledged that in some families, the parent’s presence may have affected the results. Originality/value There are just few studies that have tapped the family’s consumer decision-making intricacies. There exists an enormous research gap which needs to be filled by more empirical research into the arena of family consumer decision-making. Also, India has a distinct cultural entity as compared to Western nations; to understand how children influences in such traditional setting is insightful.

scholarly journals The role of expectations and patients' decision making process

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Bergonzini ◽  
R. Ippoliti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Outcome ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Experimental Drugs ◽  
The Difference

Aim: This work aims at highlighting the role of patient's expectations in regard to experimental drugs and/or medical treatments, analyzing which factors might affect the final clinical outcome (i.e. expected effectiveness). Results: Current studies suggest that psychological and neurobiological mechanisms intersect in inducing the placebo effect, which might be considered as a positive plus value added to the final collected outcome. Moreover, considering psychological mechanisms, we can identify both the expectations and the classical conditioning, Conclusion: A successful relationship between patients and caregivers, which is based on empathy (i.e. the ability to perceive the emotional state of the person we are in contact) can make the difference in the final outcome, increasing the expected effectiveness of the medical treatment.

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