Consumer preferences for quality foods from a south European perspective: A conjoint analysis implementation on Greek olive oil

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 62-91

  Krystallis, Athanasios ^a   Ness, Mitchell ^b  

^a Institute of Economic Policy   (Greece)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjoint analysis; Market shares; Quality extrinsic cues; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544506078     PISSN: 15592448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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