Measuring unethical consumer behavior across four countries

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 395-412

  Mitchell, Vince W ^a   Balabanis, George ^a   Schlegelmilch, Bodo B ^b   Cornwell, T Bettina ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumers; International; Latent class analysis; Misbehavior; Unethical

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349213427     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9971-1     Document Type: Article

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