Feeling ambivalent about going green: Implications for green advertising processing

Journal of Advertising

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 19-31

  Chang, Chingching ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84555170145     PISSN: 00913367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JOA0091-3367400402     Document Type: Article

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