Live, Eat, Love: life equilibrium as a driver of organic food purchase

British Food Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1410-1422

  Husic Mehmedovic, Melika ^a   Arslanagic Kalajdzic, Maja ^a   Kadic Maglajlic, Selma ^a   Vajnberger, Zlatan ^a  

^a School of Economics and Business in Sarajevo   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Extrinsic quality attributes; Health consciousness; Intrinsic quality attributes; Life equilibrium; Organic food; Purchase intentions

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSUMER; DRIVER; FOOD QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MANAGER; ORGANIC FOOD; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 85020434099     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-07-2016-0343     Document Type: Article

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