Through Thick and Thin: How Fair Trade Consumers Have Reacted to the Global Economic Recession

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 365-383

  Bondy, Tierney ^a   Talwar, Vishal ^b  

^a London School of Economics ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canada; consumer behaviour; consumption; cross country analysis; economic recession; fair trade; United Kingdom; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960333016     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0726-4     Document Type: Article

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