Consumers' attitudes, trust and willingness to pay for food information

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 153-165

  Nocella, Giuseppe ^a   Romano, Donato ^b   Stefani, Gianluca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consumers' attitudes; Information; Segmentation; Trust; WTP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894104247     PISSN: 14706423     EISSN: 14706431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijcs.12080     Document Type: Article

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