Shopping, borders and unfamiliarity: Consumer mobility in Europe

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 497-505

  Spierings, Bas ^a   Van Der Velde, Martin ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bandwidth of unfamiliarity; Borders; Shopping; Spatial mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149091755     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2008.00484.x     Document Type: Article

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