Conjoint analysis of consumer preferences for lamb meat in central and southwest urban Albania

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 111-126

  Imami, Drrini ^a   Chan Halbrendt, Catherine ^b   Zhang, Quanguo ^b   Zhllima, Edvin ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Albania; Conjoint Choice Experiment (CCE); Consumer preferences; Lamb meat; Latent class analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655180370     PISSN: 15592448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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