Packaging ethics: Perceptual differences among packaging professionals, brand managers and ethically-interested consumers

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 199-213

  Bone, Paula Fitzgerald ^a   Corey, Robert John ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034164696     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006257523743     Document Type: Article

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