Consumer attitudes towards switching supplier in three deregulated markets

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 814-819

  Gamble, Amelie ^a   Juliusson, E Asgeir ^a   Gärling, Tommy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consumer attitudes; Deregulated markets; Switching supplier

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249084051     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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