Consumer attitudes towards sustainability aspects of food production: Insights from three continents

Journal of Marketing Management

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 334-372

  Krystallis, Athanasios ^a   Grunert, Klaus G ^a   de Barcellos, Marcia D ^b   Perrea, Toula ^a   Verbeke, Wim ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

citizens; clusters; conjoint analysis; consumers; food; sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859193688     PISSN: 0267257X     EISSN: 14721376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0267257X.2012.658836     Document Type: Article

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