Predictors of purchase of eco-labelled food products: A panel study

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 701-708

  Grankvist, Gunne ^a   Biel, Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitude; Eco label; Product preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846508565     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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