Exploring consumer motivations towards buying local fresh food products a means-end chain approach

British Food Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1533-1549

  Arsil, Poppy ^a   Li, Elton ^a   Bruwer, Johan ^b   Lyons, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Indonesia; Local food; Means end chain; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924348209     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-04-2013-0083     Document Type: Article

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