Negativity bias in consumer price response to ethical information

Business Ethics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 198-208

  Moosmayer, Dirk C ^a  

^a University of Nottingham   (China)

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EID: 84864585926     PISSN: 09628770     EISSN: 14678608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8608.2011.01647.x     Document Type: Review

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