Digging deeper: How do different types of organic consumers influence the increasing organic market share?

British Food Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-29

  Andersen, Laura Mørch ^a   Lund, Thomas Bøker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consumer segments; Demand; Latent class analysis; Organic budget shares; Organic consumers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890383932     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-07-2011-0186     Document Type: Article

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