Ethnicity and acculturation: Influences on asian american consumers’ purchase decision making for social clothes

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-117

  Kang, Jikyeong ^a   Kim, Youn Kyung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

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EID: 0038054963     PISSN: 1077727X     EISSN: 15523934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X980271004     Document Type: Article

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