Understanding Consumer Recycling Behavior: Combining the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Norm Activation Model

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 278-291

  Park, Joohyung ^a   Ha, Sejin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Norm activation model; Recycling; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892893046     PISSN: 1077727X     EISSN: 15523934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fcsr.12061     Document Type: Article

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