The Relationship Between Consumers' Tendencies to Buy Compulsively and Their Motivations to Shop and Buy on the Internet

Journal of Retailing

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 298-307

  Kukar Kinney, Monika ^a   Ridgway, Nancy M ^a   Monroe, Kent B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Buying motivations; Compulsive buying; Internet buying; Shopping motivations

Indexed keywords

EID: 69349095039     PISSN: 00224359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jretai.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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