Extrinsic and intrinsic quality cues in Chinese consumers' purchase of pork ribs

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 37-47

  Grunert, Klaus G ^a   Loose, Simone Mueller ^a   Zhou, Yanfeng ^b   Tinggaard, Søren ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Danish Crown ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

China; Consumer decision making; Discrete choice experiment; Latent class analysis; Pork ribs; Quality cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921989797     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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