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    "journal": {
        "title": "Journal of Business and Retail Management Research",
        "acronym": "JBRMR",
        "issn_print": "",
        "issn_online": "2056-6271",
        "doi_prefix": "https://doi.org/10.24052/JBRMR/"
    },
    "article": {
        "id": 119,
        "title": "\"Passive Dictators\" of the family and consumer behaviour: A case of malted food",
        "abstract": "There are various roles played by the members in a family but research on family decision making has been largely confined to spouses, who have been considered as the relevant decision making unit in a family. However, the role of third party influences, such as children, on decision making strategies and negotiations is essential to taking a broader view of the relevant unit of analysis. Traditionally, women were seen to be the purchasing agents for the family. Now a days, In India increasing participation of women in the workforce has prompted a shift in this role as children are increasingly the \"buyers\" for the entire family. Even in families where women do not work, children are observed to share this role with their mothers. Children enjoy greater discretion not only in making routine consumption decisions for the family but also in pestering their parents to buy other products desired by them .It is also observed that children are socialized by their parents to act as rational consumers. After years of direct or indirect observation of parental behaviour in the marketplace, they gradually acquire relevant consumer skills from their parents. The structure of Indian families has been previously characterized as joint families with traditional SRO (that is, the husband predominated in all family affairs). However, owing to influences from the West, the structure of Indian families has changed to nuclear or extended families (nuclear families plus grandparents). The India",
        "keywords": [
            "Passive Dictators",
            "MSLP",
            "Gatekeepers",
            "Influencers"
        ],
        "doi": "",
        "url": "https://jbrmr.com/details&cid=119",
        "pdf_url": "https://jbrmr.com/cdn/article_file/i-14_c-119.pdf",
        "volume": "Volume 06",
        "issue": "Issue 1",
        "issue_id": 14,
        "issue_published_month": "2011-10-01",
        "published_date": "2013-01-28",
        "online_first_status": "no",
        "online_first_date": "",
        "history": {
            "received": "",
            "revised": "",
            "accepted": ""
        },
        "declarations": {
            "funding": "",
            "conflict_of_interest": "",
            "data_availability": "",
            "author_contributions": ""
        },
        "notice": {
            "type": "none",
            "text": ""
        },
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        },
        "authors": [
            {
                "name": "Akhilesh Chandra Pandey",
                "organization": "H.N.B. Garhwal University (Central University)",
                "country": ""
            },
            {
                "name": "S. P. Kala",
                "organization": "H.N.B. Garhwal University (Central University)",
                "country": ""
            }
        ],
        "supplementary_materials": []
    }
}