Why regular buyers of organic food still buy many conventional products: Product-specific purchase barriers for organic food consumers

British Food Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 390-404

  Buder, Fabian ^a   Feldmann, Corinna ^b   Hamm, Ulrich ^b  

^a GfK Group   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer research; Organic food; Product range; Purchase barriers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896277107     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-04-2012-0087     Document Type: Article

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