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Adolescents’ attempts at influence and self-reported errors in family vacation decisions: a cross-regional study

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Extant studies rarely explore macro factors explaining cross-culture variations in adolescents’ social influence in family decisions. This study focuses on adolescents’ influence practices (AIPs) in terms of family and cultural values/regions across 25 countries, using data regarding vacation decisions from the Commonwealth Research Program. Our results show that communication culture and cultural region are both related to AIP clusters and AIP measurement error clusters. Furthermore, a country’s culture/values and its level of socioeconomic/sociopolitical development have stronger correlations with the use of bargaining by female adolescents than by male adolescents. This study adds to relatively few crossvergence investigations in the tourism industry.

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This article is based on the first and corresponding author’s project grant of the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan for the Commonwealth Research Program (110-2410-H-030-083).

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  1. Department of Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management, Fu Jen Catholic University, 510, Zhongzheng Rd., Xinzhuang Dist., New Taipei City, 24205, Taiwan

    Che-Jen Su

  2. Rural Smart Mobility Center, China Engineering Consultants, Inc., Taipei City, Taiwan

    Yi-Fang Lan

  3. Department of Sport Management, Richard J. Wehle School of Business, Canisius College, 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14208‑1098, USA

    Nicolas G. A. Lorgnier

  4. Department of Business Management, Tatung University, Taipei City, Taiwan

    Yung-Kuei Liang

  5. CREGO Laboratory, University of Burgundy-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC), CEDEX 01, BP 27877, 21078, Dijon, France

    Anne Marie Lebrun

  6. School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, Guangdong, China

    Qiuju Luo

  7. Department of Hospitality and Tourism, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil

    Maria Helena Cavalcanti da Silva Belchior & Carlos Eduardo Pinto Pimentel

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Su, CJ., Lan, YF., Lorgnier, N.G.A. et al. Adolescents’ attempts at influence and self-reported errors in family vacation decisions: a cross-regional study. Serv Bus 17, 879–911 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11628-023-00543-x

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