Wine produced by organic grapes in Greece: Using means - End chains analysis to reveal organic buyers' purchasing motives in comparison to the non-buyers

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 549-566

  Fotopoulos, Christos ^a   Krystallis, Athanasios ^b   Ness, Mitchell ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NAgReF   (Greece)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benefits; Greece; Means end chains; Organic consumer; Personal values; Purchasing motives

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOOD PREFERENCE; GRAPE; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WINE INDUSTRY;

VITACEAE;

EID: 0038547798     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-3293(02)00130-1     Document Type: Article

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