Promoting Sustainable Consumption: Determinants of Green Purchases by Swiss Consumers

Psychology and Marketing

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 883-902

  Tanner, Carmen ^a,c   Kast, Sybille Wölfing ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Switzerland)

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EID: 2442490861     PISSN: 07426046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mar.10101     Document Type: Article

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