Research on Fair Trade Consumption-A Review

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 415-435

  Andorfer, Veronika A ^a   Liebe, Ulf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Ethical consumption; Fair Trade consumption; Field experiment; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859218775     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1008-5     Document Type: Review

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