The relationship between consumer shopping stress and purchase abandonment in task-oriented and recreation-oriented consumers

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 720-740

  Albrecht, Carmen Maria ^a   Hattula, Stefan ^b   Lehmann, Donald R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer shopping stress; Functional relationship; Motivational shopping orientation; Purchase abandonment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009513553     PISSN: 00920703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11747-016-0514-5     Document Type: Article

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