Visiting Professor of International Marketing, Department of Marketing, University of Vaasa , Vaasa , Finland , December 2005.

Ranked as the second among Leading International Business Professionals by Representation on Editorial Boards of 30 International Business Journals in 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol.36, No.4, 2005, p.463.

The J. William Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship in Eco-Tourism and Tourism Planning and Development, Department of Business Administration, National University of Management, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, August to September 2005.

The J. William Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship in Marketing for Kyrgyz Republic, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration, Kyrgyz-Turkish “Manas” University, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, December 2004.

The J. William Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship in Business Administration for Botswana, Department of Marketing, Faculty of Business, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana, August-September 2002 (The first Penn State University recipient of the award)

Visiting Professor of International Marketing, Sino-Dutch International Business Center , School of Business , Nanjing University , Nanjing , The People’s Republic of China , May 2002.

Visiting Fellow of Guanghua Graduate School of Management (GSM), Peking University , Beijing , The People’s Republic of China , March 2002.

Senior Fellow of the Center for International Business and Economic Growth, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 2001 to present.

Ranked as the second among Leading International Business Professionals by Representation on Editorial Boards of 30 International Business Journals in 1990, 1994,1998, and 2002, Journal of International Business Studies, 2005

Ranked as the Eighth Highest Contributor to International Marketing Serials (IMS) among the 19 most prolific authors. Ranks third in un-weighted appearances and ties for the fourth rank in weighted authorship among authors published in international marketing between 1985 to 1998, International Marketing Review, Vol.18, No.6, 2001, p.674.

Received  177 citations in ABI/INFORM Global Social Sciences Citation Index between 1992 and 1998.

ANBAR Electronic Intelligence Citation of Excellence: Highest Quality Rating was awarded for the paper titled “Markets of a Single Customer: Exploiting Conceptual Developments in Market Segmentation”, European Journal of Marketing, Vol.31, Nos.11/12, 1997, pp: 873-895 (co-authored).

Ranked as the Fourth Highest Contributor to International Business Literature Among Top Fifteen Contributors 1987-1993, Journal of Teaching in International Business, Vol.8, No.3, 1997, p.38

Ranked as the Eighth Highest Contributor to International Business Research Productivity and Third Highest Contributor to Management International Review Among 71 Top Authors of International Business Research in 1991-1995, Journal of Teaching in International Business, Vol.9, No.4, 1998, p. 68 & 71

1997 Award for Excellence Highly Commended (Runner Up) for the Article Titled "Retail Banking in Nordic Countries:  The Case of Finland ," International Journal of Bank Marketing, Vol. 13, No. 8, 1995 (co-authored).

1997 Award for Excellence Highly Commended (Runner Up) for the Article Titled "Marketing Strategies for Fast Food Restaurants:  A Customer View", Vol. 7, No. 4, 1995.

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Marketing, Graduate School of Business Administration, the University of the South Pacific, Suva , Fiji Islands , 2001 to present.

Visiting Professor of Marketing and International Business, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Management, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey, December 1999

Visiting Professor of Marketing and International Business, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Akdeniz University , Antalya , Turkey , October 1999

Visiting Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Business Administration, Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Kowloon , Hong Kong , May 1999

Visiting Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Business, Lingnan University , Hong Kong , May 1999

Visiting Professor of Marketing and International Business, Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, March 1999

Visiting Professor of Marketing, Graduate School of Business, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong , June and July 2000

Visiting Professor of Marketing, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai , People’s Republic of China , July-August 2000

Training Consultant on Trade-Related Training for Trainers, Program of the Government of the State of Sudan , Financed by the United Nations Development Program and International Trade Center (ITC), Khartoum , The Sudan , May and August 1997.

Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo , Japan , July-August 1995.

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Commerce, Fukuoka University , Fukuoka , Japan , July-August, 1995.

Visiting Professor of Marketing and International Business, Bishkek International School of Management and Business (BISMB), Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic , December 1994, May through July 1995, December 1995, May through July

1996, and June through July 1997. Offered Presidential Seminar on Strategic Marketing Planning and served as a Resource Person on the Presidential Committee on Education and Science (The 21^st Century Specialists) and engaged in institution building activities.

Honorary Doctoral Degree in Business Administration Awarded by Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Turku, Finland, May 13, 1995.

Visiting Professor of International Marketing, Department of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong , May 1998.

Visiting Professor of Marketing, Department of Marketing, College of Business Administration , University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu , Hawaii , June-August 1993.

Member of Mu Kappa Tau National Marketing Honor Society, 1993 to present.

Member of Alpha Mu Alpha the Honorary Marketing Society, 1994 to present.

Visiting Research Professor, June-July 1994.  Held seminars for faculty and business executives, Graduate School of Business Administration, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia .

Visitor of the Year Award given by the Research Institute of Northern Finland (RINF), University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, December 1992.

Fellowship of South Africa Human Sciences Research Council, May 1995.

Visiting Research Professor, March 1992. Held seminars and supervised doctoral students at the University of Lund, Sweden under a grant from Lund University .

Visiting Research Professor, November-December 1991.  Held seminars for faculty and students and supervised doctoral students at Helsinki School of Economics, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration and University of Tampere, Finland under a grant from Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.

South African Overseas Research Fellowship Award, February 1991.  Held seminars at the University of Stellenbosch, University of Witwatersrand, and Rand Afrikans University and carried out research on tourism marketing planning and forecasting.

Visiting Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara , Turkey , June through August 1991.  Held seminars and taught an MBA course on Strategic Marketing Planning.

Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg Outstanding Researcher Award, April 1990.

United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Transfer of Know-how Through Expatriate Nationals (TOKTEN) Award, July-August 1989.  Held seminars and taught an MBA course in International Marketing at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey .

University of Lodz Rector's Scholarship, Lodz , Poland , February 1987.  Held seminars at the University of Lodz and the Central School of Economics and Statistics, Warsaw on international marketing and cross-cultural consumer behavior research for faculty and doctoral students.

United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Transfer of Know-how Through Expatriate Nationals (TOKTEN) Award, December 1985.  Held seminars at Cukurova University, Adana, Marmara University, Istanbul; Mersin School of Tourism Administration, Mersin, Turkey .  I was also a resource person and a panel member of Textile Marketing and International Marketing Seminars held for industrialists and businessmen in Adana , Turkey .

Visiting Research Professor.  Undertook research on Comparative Retail Distribution Systems in July and August of 1984 at the Department of Business Studies, University of Stirling , Stirling , Scotland under a British Council Academic Travel Grants.

Visiting Research Professor.  Undertook research on Comparative Marketing Systems in April 1984 at the University of Uppsala , University of Stockholm and University of Ostersund , Sweden under grants from Universities of Uppsala and Ostersund.

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Scholar, University of Mannheim , Mannheim , Germany , Summer of 1984.

Member of the Canadian Federation of Deans of Management and Administrative Studies Five Men Canadian Team who studied the structure and developments in British management education in February 1983 under a British Council grant.

Mount Saint Vincent University President's Merit Award for the academic year 1981-82.

Swedish Institute Research Scholar.  Undertook research on Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior in the summer of 1981 at the University of Lund , Lund , Sweden .

Outstanding Service Award and Special Service Award as Fifth World Business Congress Co-Chair and Proceedings Co-Editor Awarded by The International Management Development Association (IMDA), July 19, 1996, Hamilton, Bermuda.

Best Paper Award presented by Allied Southern Business Association (ASBA) International Management Development Association Winter Interim Conference on The Structure and Process of Globalization in Business and Education, Orlando, Florida, November 9, 1995 (co-authored).

Outstanding Service Award and Special Service Award as Fourth World Business Congress Co-Chair and Proceedings Co-Editor Awarded by Marmara University and The International Management Development Association (IMDA), July 14, 1995, Istanbul, Turkey.

Merit Award for Outstanding Service as Third World Business Congress Co-Chair and Proceedings Co-Editor Awarded by University of Sains Malaysia, June 16, 1994, Penang Island, Malaysia.

Special Award for Outstanding Service as Second World Business Congress Vice-Chair and Proceedings Co-Editor Awarded by the Rector of Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, June 5, 1993 Turku, Finland.

Special Award for Outstanding Service as First World Business Congress Chair and Proceedings Co-Editor, April 15, 1992, Halifax, Canada.

Special Award for Outstanding Service as 1989 North American Conference Proceedings’ Co-Editor of the International Business Schools Computer Users Group, July 23-26, 1989 , Hershey , Pennsylvania , U.S.A.

Special Award for Outstanding Service as 1987 North American Conference Proceedings Editor of the International Business Schools Computer Users Group, Flint , Michigan , U.S.A. July 28, 1987 .

Academy of Marketing Science Award for the Contributions to Marketing, Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada , November 4, 1983 .

Meritorious Award presented by the International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics, Acapulco , Mexico , December 1980 (co-authored).

Merit Award presented by the Atlantic Provinces Chambers of Commerce for submitting The Best Applied Paper at the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, October 1980, Cape Breton , Nova Scotia , Canada (co-authored).

Quebecair Best Paper Award in Service Marketing presented by Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), May 1985, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (co-authored).

Turkish Government Scholarship to study for higher degrees in the United Kingdom from 1969 through 1975.  (Attained the first place in a highly competitive Turkish Government scholarship exam).

British Council Overseas Student Award to complete Masters and Doctoral Studies in the United Kingdom from 1970 through 1975.

Fellowship of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies.  Attended the International Business Session of the Salzburg Seminar in June 1976 in Salzburg , Austria .

British Council Research Fellow.  Studied the Structure and Development of Graduate Management and Marketing Education in the United Kingdom .  Made a study tour to leading Business Schools of Britain in the summer of 1977.

Turkish delegate to the Mediterranean Consumer Conference.  Represented Turkish Consumer Protection Association in an official capacity in April 1977 in Athens , Greece .

Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) Fellowship, May through September 1979.