...Alessandro Graciotti; Marco Balzano Purpose Drawing from self-categorization theory ( SCT ), this study aims to explore how individuals’ place-belonging needs, tied to social identity constructs such as local identity, attachment to tradition, and connectedness with nature, drive local food...

...Rajlakshmi Banerjee; Barry Quinn Purpose This study aims to focus on local food consumption and specifically seeks to explore how consumers construct the meaning of local food and the nature of relationships between key influences on the local food purchase intention. Design/methodology...

...Juliet Memery; Robert Angell; Phil Megicks; Adam Lindgreen Purpose – This study aims to investigate how attributes associated with local food (intrinsic product quality; local support) motivate purchase behaviour. Previous research assumes heterogeneity in consumer motivation, but this has never...