Territory, environment, and healthiness in traditional food choices: Insights into consumer heterogeneity

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 143-157

  Boncinelli, Fabio ^a   Contini, Caterina ^a   Romano, Caterina ^a   Scozzafava, Gabriele ^a   Casini, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consumer profiling; Credence attributes; Extra virgin olive oil; Latent class model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013032001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15592448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22434/IFAMR2015.0177     Document Type: Article

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