Environmental attitude and ecological behaviour of Indian consumers

Social Responsibility Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-18

  Singh, Narendra ^a   Gupta, Karnika ^a  

^a KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Components and predictors; Consumer behaviour; Ecological behaviour; Environmental attitude; India

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874927357     PISSN: 17471117     EISSN: 1758857x     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17471111311307787     Document Type: Article

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