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Issue Streams and Open Solutions: A New Approach to Family‐Home Decisions
Author(s) -
Kleppe Ingeborg Astrid,
Grønhaug Kjell
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1552-3934.2009.00016.x
Subject(s) - negotiation , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , business , consumption (sociology) , ideal (ethics) , marketing , computer science , sociology , political science , geography , law , artificial intelligence , social science , archaeology
This article takes a new perspective on family‐home decisions as an issue evolving over time and in the context of other family decisions. An intriguing discovery is that the first family home is important as a negotiation site for the development of preferences for future homes. Due to loss of buyer power in the decision preceding first high‐commitment family home financial overcommitment and extensive renovation projects are common. Moreover, family home is a constantly recurring consumption issue. When faced with multiple concurrent decision issues, a family may choose temporary open solutions with substantial trade‐offs when ideal solutions are not feasible.