Gender Differences in Psychosocial Determinants of University Students’ Intentions to Buy Fair Trade Products

Journal of Consumer Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 485-505

  de Leeuw, A ^a   Valois, Pierre ^b   Morin, Alexandre J S ^c   Schmidt, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fair trade; Gender; Invariance testing; Moral norms; Theory of planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939876622     PISSN: 01687034     EISSN: 15730700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10603-014-9262-4     Document Type: Article

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