Exploring the dark side of pet ownership: Status- and control-based pet consumption

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 490-496

  Beverland, Michael B ^c   Farrelly, Francis ^b   Lim, Elison Ai Ching ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Interpretive research; Pets; Status consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149162728     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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