Environmental and Economic Dimensions of Sustainability and Price Effects on Consumer Responses

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 269-282

  Choi, Sungchul ^a   Ng, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer responses; Economical; Environment; Experiment; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255137527     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0908-8     Document Type: Article

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