Consumer behaviour with regard to food innovations: Quality perception and decisionmaking

Innovation in Agri-Food Systems: Product Quality and Consumer

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 57-85

  Grunert, Klaus G ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

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EID: 84899308420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-666-3     Document Type: Chapter

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