Consumer car preferences and information search channels

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 334-342

  van Rijnsoever, Frank ^a   Farla, Jacco ^a   Dijst, Martin J ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attitude behavior gap; Car purchase; Information search; Involvement

Indexed keywords

PURCHASING;

ATTITUDE-BEHAVIOR GAP; ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES; ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE; INFORMATION SEARCH; INFORMATION SOURCES; INVOLVEMENT; NETHERLANDS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

AUTOMOBILE; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349152121     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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