Determinants of willingness to purchase organic food: An exploratory study using structural equation modeling

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-120

  Voon, Jan P ^a   Ngui, Kwang Sing ^b   Agrawal, Anand ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Management; Organic food; SEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959894155     PISSN: 15592448     EISSN: 15592448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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