Can Chinese consumers be persuaded? The case of genetically modified vegetable oil

AgBioForum

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 124-132

  Hu, Wuyang ^a   Chen, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetically modified (GM); Information; Multinominal logit model; Vegetable oil

Indexed keywords

EID: 17644395218     PISSN: 1522936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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