Are Fair Trade goods credence goods? A new proposal, with French illustrations

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 92, Issue SUPPL 2, 2010, Pages 331-345

  Balineau, Gaëlle ^a   Dufeu, Ivan ^b  

^a Fondation pour les études et les Recherches sur le Développement International   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Credence goods; Fair Trade; Indeterminate goods; Labels; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894283164     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0577-z     Document Type: Article

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