Decisional factors driving organic food consumption: Generation of consumer purchase intentions

British Food Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1066-1081

  Teng, Chih Ching ^a   Wang, Yu Mei ^b  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Organic foods; Perceived knowledge; Purchase intentions; Revealed information; Subjective norm; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939237482     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-12-2013-0361     Document Type: Article

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