The influence of pre-decisional constraints on information search and consideration set formation in new automobile purchases

International Journal of Research in Marketing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 383-400

  Punj, Girish ^a   Brookes, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Automobiles; Consideration sets; Consumer behavior; Decision processes; Purchasing behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036891197     PISSN: 01678116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8116(02)00100-3     Document Type: Article

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