Author: Zoltán Levente Fejes

  Explaining Consumer Demand for Counterfeit Goods: Social Learning or Low Self-Control? Zoltán Levente Fejes, 2017   Two competing theoretical explanations for the knowing purchase of counterfeit goods are Akers’ Social Learning Theory and Gottfredson and Hirschi’s Low Self-Control Theory. This A-CAPP Center Backgrounder reports results of a survey among Romanian university students about volitional […]

  Investigating Consumer Demand for Counterfeit Goods: Examining the Ability of Social Learning and Low Self-Control to Explain Volitional Purchase of Non-deceptive Counterfeit Products in an Eastern European College Sample Click here to read the full publication Zoltan-Levente Fejes, 2016   Product counterfeiting is an interdisciplinary phenomenon that has relatively recently emerged as a field […]

    Routine Activities and Product Counterfeiting: A Research Note Click here to read the full article Zoltán Levente Fejes, Roy Fenoff, Megan Hollis and Jeremy Wilson, 2014   Product counterfeiting has only recently emerged as an area of research interest for criminal justice and criminology scholars. As a consequence, criminological research and application of criminological theory […]

  Cue Utilization in the Product Authentication Process: A Framework and Research Agenda for Product Counterfeit Prevention Click here to read the full article Zoltan Levente-Fejes and Jeremy Wilson, 2013   Scholars suggest that consumers rely on heuristics to evaluate products. They employ both extrinsic and intrinsic cues to evaluate product quality and utilize the […]

  The Use of Cues in the Consumer Product Authentication Process   Zoltan-Levente Fejes and Jeremy Wilson, 2013   The proliferation of counterfeit goods has made product authentication increasingly important, with consumers and end users playing greater roles in the authentication process.  Determining the degree to which infringing products can deceive customers is crucial for […]