Cross‐cultural differences in consumer decision‐making styles

Consumer Decisionmaking in the Health Care Marketplace

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Personal Decisionmaking Styles and Long-Term Care Choices

To learn more about how older people make decisions about long-term care (LTC), in-depth interviews were conducted with 63 elderly individuals and 56 of their relatives to obtain information on the decisionmaking process. This qualitative research showed that LTC decisionmaking does not always follow typical consumer decisionmaking models, in which a consumer seeks a product or service, selects...

Sex differences in attachment styles.

Sex differences in attachment styles have been found in adulthood, emerge as early as middle childhood, and can be sizable when described at the appropriate level of analysis. However, they have received relatively little attention in mainstream attachment research. Here I review the evidence of sex differences in attachment, including what is currently known about developmental patterns and cr...

Cultural Differences in Consumer Impatience

Vol. XLII (August 2005), 291–301 291 *Haipeng (Allan) Chen is Assistant Professor of Marketing, School of Business Administration, University of Miami (e-mail: hchen@miami. edu). Sharon Ng is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (e-mail: [email protected]). Akshay R. Rao is General Mills Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Department of Marketing and ...

Gender Differences in Occupational Leadership Styles A