When Going Green Backfires: How Firm Intentions Shape the Evaluation of Socially Beneficial Product Enhancements

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Consumer Research

• Publication date

  2014-10-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/677841
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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