Consumers’ purchasing behavior towards green products in New Zealand

Innovative Marketing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-102

  Gan, Christopher ^a   Wee, Han Yen ^a   Ozanne, Lucie ^a   Kao, Tzu Hui ^a  

^a NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Environmentally friendly products; Green marketing; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887494725     PISSN: 18142427     EISSN: 18166326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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