Cross-cultural study on decision making of German and Indian university students

• Main Author: Tipandjan, Arun
• Other Authors: TU Chemnitz, Fakultät für Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz 2010
• Subjects: India and Germany; cross-cultural psychology; cultural bias; decision making; etic-emic-etic; individualism and collectivism; qualitative and quantitative analysis; ddc:100; Entscheidungsverhalten; Individualismus; Kollektivismus; Kulturvergleich; Qualitatives Interview; Quantitative Analyse; Völkerpsychologie
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-201000777; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-201000777; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/6002/data/Arun_Thesis.pdf; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/6002/20100077.txt

The dissertation consists of an introduction and three empirical articles. The introduction gives the theoretical background, integrates the three articles, and elaborates on future research questions. The first article investigates the important decision in the lives of German and Indian university students to identify the important areas of decision making. The second article examines the structure of real life decision making and reveals the underlying factors of five major decision areas. The third article investigates the similarities and differences on decision making between German and Indian students using prior qualitative findings in a large quantitative survey.