Organic wine purchase behaviour in Germany: Exploring the attitude-behaviour-gap with data from a household panel

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 63, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-11

  Schäufele, Isabel ^a   Hamm, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude behaviour gap; Consumer behaviour; Ethical consumption; Household panel data; Organic wine; Wine choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026548649     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.07.010     Document Type: Article

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