The burdens of ownership: Reasons for preferring renting

Managing Service Quality

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 176-191

  Moeller, Sabine ^a   Wittkowski, Kristina ^a  

^a EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Consumer goods; Germany; Internet; Retailing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949326628     PISSN: 09604529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09604521011027598     Document Type: Article

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