Author: Zoltan Levente-Fejes

Review of Reports Quantifying the Economic Impact of Counterfeiting and Piracy

John Spink and Zoltan Levente-Fejes, 2012 Product counterfeiting is growing internationally in scope, scale, and threat. The economic impact is believed to be in hundreds of billions of dollars. There is growing awareness of the developed and developing countries’ public health vulnerabilities from a range of counterfeit products such as pharmaceuticals, food additives, consumer products, …

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Cue Utilization in the Product Authentication Process: A Framework and Research Agenda for Product Counterfeit Prevention

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 same cues to differentiate between counterfeit and genuine products. This has far-reaching public health, economic, product authentication, and even criminal justice policy implications due to …

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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 assessing the economic and public health and safety impact of counterfeiting and piracy, …

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Routine Activities and Product Counterfeiting: A Research Note

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 to this phenomenon is limited at this time. This article proposes that routine activities theory provides an excellent …

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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

Zoltan-Levente Fejes, 2016 Product counterfeiting is an interdisciplinary phenomenon that has relatively recently emerged as a field of interest for criminologists. Consequently, a clear understanding of product counterfeiting from a criminological perspective is lacking, as the application of criminological theory to this crime type as well as any guidance for the analyses of the phenomenon …

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