Functional, organic or conventional? Food choices of health conscious and skeptical consumers

Baltic Journal of Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 139-152

  Gineikiene, Justina ^a   Kiudyte, Justina ^a   Degutis, Mindaugas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Consumers; Food choices; Food products; Health claims skepticism; Health consciousness; Reactance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015381350     PISSN: 17465265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BJM-01-2016-0016     Document Type: Article

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