Consumers wtp for wine with certified origin: Preliminary results from latent classes based on attitudinal responses

Journal of Food Products Marketing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 231-248

  Scarpa, Riccardo ^a   Thiene, Mara ^b   Galletto, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consumer preferences; Latent class attitudinal model; Organic products; Unobserved heterogeneity; WTP

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449139976     PISSN: 10454446     EISSN: 15404102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10454440902973377     Document Type: Article

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