Who is the fairest of them all? An attributional approach to price fairness perceptions

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 453-463

  Vaidyanathan, Rajiv ^a   Aggarwal, Praveen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution theory; Dual entitlement principle; Price fairness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037409153     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(01)00231-4     Document Type: Article

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