Ethically minded consumer behavior: Scale review, development, and validation

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2697-2710

  Sudbury Riley, Lynn ^a   Kohlbacher, Florian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b German Institute for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^c XI AN JIAOTONG LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attitude behavior gap; Consumer ethics; Ethical consumption; Scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947968401     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.11.005     Document Type: Article

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