The impact of attitude variables on the credit debt behavior

Nankai Business Review International

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 120-139

  Wang, Lili ^a   Lv, Wei ^a   Jiang, Lin ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Consumer behaviour; Debt and credit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888334510     PISSN: 20408749     EISSN: 20408757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/20408741111139909     Document Type: Article

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