Ahmet Ekici

Research Interests:
Food marketing, food safety, institutional and system level trust, marketing and public policy, macromarketing, branding, innovation and new product development, quality of life/consumer well-being studies.

Current Research:
  • Relationships among individual, institutional, and system level public trust (in the context of food safety)
  • Cultural and political aspects of branding
  • Consumer versus firm perspectives on "being innovative"
  • Patterns of new product development
  • Consumer well-being at the community level

Most Recent Publications:

  • Ekici, Ahmet (in press), "Consuming, Studying, and Regulating Genetically Modified Foods: A Case for Transformative Consumer Research," Advances in Consumer Research, 33 (forthcoming)
  • Sandikci, Ozlem, Ahmet Ekici, and Berna Tari (in press), "Consumer Acculturation as a Dialogical Process: Case Studies from Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Turkey," Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 33 (forthcoming)
  • Ekici, Ahmet (2005), "Consumers' View of Food Biotechnology: A Proactive Approach to Marketing and Public Policy," Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 32 Geeta Menon and Akshay R. Rao (eds.),.
  • Ekici, Ahmet (2004), "Consumer Trust and Distrust in the Food System: Some Implications for the Debates on Food Biotechnologies,", Advances in Consumer Research, 31, Barbara E. Kahn and Mary Francis Luce (eds.) Valdosta, GA: Association for Consumer Research.
  • Ekici, Ahmet (2002), "Putting Consumer Voice Back in Public Policy: An Enlightenment Model Approach," in Advances in Consumer Research, 29, Kent Nakamota and Susan Broniarczyk, eds., Valdosta, GA: Association for Consumer Research.
  • Commuri, Suraj, Ahmet Ekici, and Patricia Kennedy (2002) "Historical Review of Advertising Targeting Mothers: Content Analysis Under Sociological Imagination of Ads in 1920s, 1950s, and 1980s," in Advances in Consumer Research, 29, Kent Nakamota and Susan Broniarczyk, eds., Valdosta, GA: Association for Consumer Research.

 

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