Types and influential factors of consumers' non-purchasing ecological behaviors

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-76

  Tilikidou, Irene ^a   Delistavrou, Antonia ^a  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Ecological activities; Post purchasing behavior; Recycling

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; RECYCLING;

EID: 38749141784     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.500     Document Type: Article

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