Communicating organic food quality in China: Consumer perceptions of organic products and the effect of environmental value priming

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 50, Issue , 2016, Pages 102-108

  Loebnitz, Natascha ^a   Aschemann Witzel, Jessica ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

China; Environmental values; Organic food; Priming; Product expectations; Value centrality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957799459     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.02.003     Document Type: Article

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