Browsing by Author "Ekici, Ahmet"
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Consumer acculturation as a dialogical process: case studies from rural-to-urban migrants in Turkey
Sandıkçı, Özlem; Ekici, Ahmet; Tarı, Berna (Association for Consumer Research, 2006)Consumer acculturation has received considerable research attention (e.g. Gentry et al 1995; Metha and Belk 1991; Oswald 1999; Penaloza 1989, 1994). Drawing mainly from literatures on acculturation, socialization and ... -
Consuming, studying, and regulating genetically modified foods: a case for transformative consumer research
Ekici, Ahmet (Association for Consumer Research, 2006)ACR 2005 North American Conference calls for Transformative Consumer Research (TCR). Based on the principles of TCR, the objective of this paper is to provide a platform to involve consumers more directly with public policy ... -
Correction to: the message in the box: how exposure to money affects charitable giving
Ekici, Ahmet; Shiri, Aminreza; Mandrik, C. A. (Springer, 2019-02-07) -
The dual model of materialism: success versus happiness materialism on present and future life satisfaction
Sirgy, M. J.; Yu, G. B.; Lee, D.-J.; Joshanloo, M.; Bosnjak, M.; Jiao, J.; Ekici, Ahmet; Gurel Atay, E.; Grzeskowiak, S. (Springer, 2021-02)Materialism can influence life satisfaction both positively and negatively. We build on the dual model of materialism (Sirgy et al. Social Indicators Research, 110(1), 349-366, 2013) to make the case that two dimensions ... -
The effects of shopping well-being and shopping ill-being on consumer life satisfaction
Ekici, Ahmet; Sirgy, M. J.; Lee, D-J.; Yu, G. B.; Bosnjak, M. (Springer Netherlands, 2018)Individuals hold two distinct sets of beliefs about shopping activities: Positive beliefs regarding the degree to which shopping contributes to quality of life (shopping well-being), and negative beliefs related to the ... -
The future of macromarketing: recommendations based on a content analysis of the past twelve years of the journal of macromarketing
Ekici, Ahmet; Genç, Tuğçe Özgen; Çelik, Hafize (SAGE Publications, 2020-10-16)In their essays published in the Silver Anniversary Issue (SAI) of the Journal of Macromarketing (2006), George Fisk and Mark Peterson independently outlined the current state of the discipline and made a list of visionary ... -
A model of consumer life-satisfaction amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence and policy implications
Ekici, Ahmet; Watson, F. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing,, 2021-06-26)The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted the lives of consumers across the globe. What guidance can consumer researchers and policymakers provide consumers to elicit adaptive responses that contribute to their ... -
A new lens to the understanding and reduction of household food waste: A fuzzy cognitive map approach
Genç, Tuğce Özgen; Ekici, Ahmet (Elsevier BV, 2022-07-15)Food waste generated at the household level is known to be the main contributor to total food waste, particularly in developed regions. Reducing household food waste (HFW), however, is an extremely compelling task as there ... -
Organic farming for the domestic market: Exploring a unique yet challenging food system in Turkey
Ekici, Ahmet (Macromarketing Society, 2012-06) -
Shopping well-being and ill-being: toward an integrated model
Lee, D. J.; Yu, G. B.; Sirgy, M. J.; Ekici, Ahmet; Atay, E. G.; Bahn, K. D. (IGI Global, 2014)In this chapter, the authors make an attempt to review and integrate much of the research on shopping well-being and ill-being experiences. The integrated model identifies the antecedents of these two focal constructs in ... -
Understanding and managing complexity through Bayesian network approach: the case of bribery in business transactions
Ekici, Ahmet; Ekici, Ş. Ö. (Elsevier, 2019)Managing complex business problems requires decision makers to take a systemic perspective and utilize tools that can generate knowledge from the interdependencies of the system’s complex properties. As such, the ... -
Understanding the dark sides of alternative economies to maximize societal benefit
Watson, F.; Ekici, Ahmet (SAGE Publications, 2020)Alternative economies can significantly contribute to societal flourishing, but the potential dark sides should also be considered. As shared commitments are the foundation of alternative economies, we draw on related ... -
What motivates people to be materialistic? Developing a measure of materialism motives
Gürel-Atay, E.; Sirgy, M. J.; Webb, D.; Ekici, Ahmet; Lee, D. -J.; Kahle, L. R. (Wiley, 2021)This article presents, through a series of studies conducted in six countries, the development, psychometric testing, and cross‐cultural validation of an independent measure of materialism motives involving three dimensions: ...