A cross-cultural investigation of the materialism construct - Assessing the Richins and Dawson's materialism scale in Denmark, France and Russia

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 893-900

  Griffin, Mitch ^a   Babin, Barry J ^b   Christensen, Finn ^c  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural contexts; Richins and Dawson's materialism scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342585511     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(02)00290-4     Document Type: Article

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