Habitual and value-guided purchase behavior

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Volumn 34, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 360-365

  Biel, Anders ^a   Dahlstrand, Ulf ^a   Grankvist, Gunne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES;

EID: 22344447262     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-34.4.360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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21. Acknowledgments: We would like to thank Bas Verplanken and Jörgen Garvill for valuable comments on this manuscript.