Subjective knowledge as a determinant of young adult consumers wine behaviour

British Food Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2930-2946

  Hristov, Hristo ^a   Kuhar, Aleš ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Best worst scaling; Latent class analysis; Republic of Macedonia; Subjective knowledge; Wine; Young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946854998     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-04-2015-0163     Document Type: Article

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