Consumer awareness and sustainability-focused value orientation as motivating factors of responsible consumer behavior

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 Số 4 - Trang 959-991 - 2017
Anja Buerke1, Tammo Straatmann2, Nick Lin‐Hi3, Karsten Müller2
1SVI-Endowed Chair of Marketing, esp. E-Commerce and Cross-Media Management, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Leipzig, Germany
2Work and Organizational Psychology, and Cross-Cultural Business Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany
3Chair of Business and Ethics, University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany

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