The authors present a new model of the process of family decision-making that takes into account the importance of sex roles. They use a series of couples as examples that illustrate the model at various stages of the life cycle. They also consider how decision-making is changing. A major contribution to the study of sexual politics and bargaining within relationships. 'The authors are to be commended for their attempt to bring order to the complexities of family decisioning, and their work should stimulate further research in the area. Their focussing upon couples and families rather than individuals and their extension of the concept of "family" to nontraditional arrangements also are commendable.' -- Journal of Marriage

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology, course: Master of Business Administration, language: English, abstract: In the recent years the influence level of children have shown dramatic changes and major variations depending upon factors and different norms and values. Family purchase decision are being influenced by children by a greater extent. Hence, all these developments and changes have resulted in creating the need to gauge and identify certain variables which impact children to influence their family in purchase decision making. Moreover, this would also highlight the overall importance and role of children within the family. Therefore the aim of this study was to test certain factors which creates impact on children to influence their parents. This was supported by conducting of quantitative (questionnaires) and qualitative survey (unstructured interviews). In order to achieve the research objectives around 230 respondents through quantitative and 5 through qualitative approach were analyzed. This research will be beneficial for the store owners & marketers/researchers to identify and create effectives strategies which would impact the children to influence their parents in the purchase decisions. However this research is limited to Karachi only as a result of budget and time constraints, therefore for further study this research can also be based on a wider scope i.e., outside Karachi including maximum variables that can affect the children to influence in the family purchase decision. This would allow to further analyze and get more insights over the topic.

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