How does corporate social responsibility in the food industry matter?

New Medit

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2-9

  Lombardi, Alessia ^a   Caracciolo, Francesco ^a   Cembalo, Luigi ^a   Lerro, Marco ^a   Lombardi, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Contingent valuation; Food supply; Schwartz values; Tobit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943392377     PISSN: 15945685     EISSN: 26111128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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