What makes customers bring their bags or buy bags from the shop? A survey of customers at a Taiwan hypermarket

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 318-332

  Lam, San Pui ^a   Chen, Jiun Kai ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Response efficacy; Theory of planned behavior; Waste prevention

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; SHOPPING ACTIVITY;

EID: 33645543154     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916505278327     Document Type: Article

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