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Research Article

Sustainable consumption models for customers: investigating the significant antecedents of green purchase behavior from the perspective of information asymmetry

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Pages 1668-1688 | Received 27 Mar 2020, Accepted 09 Oct 2020, Published online: 17 Nov 2020

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