Mobile Phone Use as Part of Young People's Consumption Styles

Journal of Consumer Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 441-463

  Wilska, Terhi Anna ^a  

^a Finnish Youth Research Network   (Finland)

Author keywords

Consumption Pattern; Economic Policy; Empirical Study; Mobile Phone; Young People

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040591774     PISSN: 01687034     EISSN: 15730700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026331016172     Document Type: Article

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