The citizen-consumer hybrid: ideological tensions and the case of Whole Foods Market

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 37 Số 3 - Trang 229-270 - 2008
Josée Johnston1
1Sociology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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