Are ethical consumption and charitable giving substitutes or not? Insights into consumers' coffee choice

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 412-421

  Langen, Nina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Department of Agricultural and Food Market Research ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Charitable giving; Fair Trade; Latent class analysis; Market segmentation; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953722209     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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