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Business and Management

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32
Citations
7413
World Ranking
2589
National Ranking
1016

Overview

Ali Kara is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans various domains within business, management, and social sciences, focusing on several interrelated subfields and topics.

The main fields of study include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, their work particularly concentrates on these subfields:

  • Marketing
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Education
  • Strategy and Management

The topics covered in Ali Kara's research include:

  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
  • Sustainability in Higher Education
  • Service and Product Innovation

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Ali Kara are:

  • "Gen Z consumers' sustainable consumption behaviors: influencers and moderators," 2023, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
  • "An application of the net promoter score in higher education," 2022, Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION

Other relevant papers linked to Ali Kara's research network include:

  • "Export market orientation, marketing capabilities and export performance of SMEs in an emerging market: a resource-based approach," 2020, The Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
  • "Effects of Brand Heritage on Intentions to Buy of Airline Services: The Mediating Roles of Brand Trust and Brand Loyalty," 2020, Sustainability
  • "Consumer Ethnocentrism and Willingness to Buy Foreign Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Turkey and Colombia," 2020, Latin American Business Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ali Kara comprise:

  • John E. Spillan
  • Guido Grunwald
  • Deniz Zeren
  • Alma Mintu-Wimsatt
  • Gaye Açıkdilli

Common publication venues for their work include:

  • Latin American Business Review
  • International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
  • Sustainability
  • International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing
  • Journal of Fair Trade

In addition to articles, Ali Kara has contributed to book publications. One such book, titled Relationship-Oriented Sustainability Marketing, is expected to be published by Springer International Publishing in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Determinants of Business Student Satisfaction and Retention in Higher Education: Applying Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory.

    Oscar W. DeShields;Ali Kara;Erdener Kaynak

  • Consumer perceptions of foreign products: An analysis of product‐country images and ethnocentrism

    Erdener Kaynak;Ali Kara

  • Supermarket self-checkout service quality, customer satisfaction, and loyalty: Empirical evidence from an emerging market

    Fatma Demirci Orel;Ali Kara

  • The Effect of a Market Orientation on Business Performance: A Study of Small‐Sized Service Retailers Using MARKOR Scale

    Ali Kara;John E. Spillan;Oscar W. DeShields

  • Determinants of Student Loyalty in Higher Education: A Tested Relationship Approach in Latin America

    José I. Rojas-Méndez;Arturo Z. Vasquez-Parraga;Ali Kara;Arcadio Cerda-Urrutia

  • Source effects in purchase decisions: The impact of physical attractiveness and accent of salesperson

    Oscar W. DeShields;Ali Kara;Erdener Kaynak

  • A Monte Carlo investigation of incomplete pairwise comparison matrices in AHP

    Frank J. Carmone;Ali Kara;Stelios H. Zanakis

  • Marketing strategies for fast-food restaurants: A customer view

    Ali Kara;Erdener Kaynak;Orsay Kucukemiroglu

  • Markets of a single customer: exploiting conceptual developments in market segmentation

    Ali Kara;Erdener Kaynak

  • An Empirical Investigation of the Link between Market Orientation and Business Performance in Nonprofit Service Providers

    Ali Kara;John E. Spillan;Oscar W. DeShields

  • An examination of the relationship among consumer lifestyles, ethnocentrism, knowledge structures, attitudes and behavioural tendencies: a comparative study in two CIS states

    Erdener Kaynak;Ali Kara

  • Market orientation and organizational performance: A comparison of industrial versus consumer companies in mainland China using market orientation scale (MARKOR)

    Erdener Kaynak;Ali Kara

  • Ethnicity And Consumer Choice: A Study Of Hispanic Decision Processes Across Different Acculturation Levels

    Ali Kara;Natasha R. Kara

  • Online word-of-mouth communication on social networking sites: An empirical study of Facebook users

    Setenay Kucukemiroglu;Ali Kara

  • HINoV: A New Model to Improve Market Segment Definition by Identifying Noisy Variables:

    Frank J. Carmone;Ali Kara;Sarah Maxwell

  • Credit Card Development Strategies for the Youth Market

    Ali Kara;Erdener Kaynak;Orsay Kucukemiroglu

  • Consumer preferences of store brands: Role of prior experiences and value consciousness

    Ali Kara;José I Rojas-Méndez;Orsay Kucukemiroglu;Talha Harcar

  • An exploratory study of characteristics and attributes of Turkish entrepreneurs: A cross-country comparison to Irish entrepreneurs

    Mehmet Turan;Ali Kara

  • Export market orientation, marketing capabilities and export performance of SMEs in an emerging market: a resource-based approach

    Gaye Acikdilli;Alma Mintu-Wimsatt;Ali Kara;John E. Spillan

  • A comparison of the effect of logistic strategy and logistics integration on firm competitiveness in the USA and China

    John E. Spillan;Michael A. McGinnis;Ali Kara;George Liu Yi

  • Emerging market consumers’ country of production image, trust and quality perceptions of global brands made-in China

    Aybeniz Akdeniz Ar;Ali Kara

  • A structural equation model assessment of logistics strategy

    Jonathan W. Kohn;Michael A. McGinnis;Ali Kara

Frequent Co-Authors

Erdener Kaynak
Erdener Kaynak Pennsylvania State University
Adil Denizli
Adil Denizli Hacettepe University
Lokman Uzun
Lokman Uzun Hacettepe University
Mahir Alkan
Mahir Alkan Balıkesir University
Sundeep Sahay
Sundeep Sahay University of Oslo
Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Mehmet Dogan
Mehmet Dogan Balıkesir University
Tommi Laukkanen
Tommi Laukkanen University of Eastern Finland

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