Marketing PhD Alumni
Dr. Denish Shah (PhD, 2008)
Assistant Professor of Marketing and Assistant Director,
Center for Excellence in Brand and Customer Management, Georgia State
Dissertation: "An Integrated Framework for Managing Marketing Productivity when Selling Through Intermediary Firms"
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. V Kumar
Dr. Andrew Petersen (PhD, 2008)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dissertation: "Essays on Product Returns: The Impact of Customer Product Return Behavior on Profitability"
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. V Kumar
Dr. Morris K. George (PhD, 2008)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Baylor University
Dissertation: "Essays on Cross-buying in a Non-Contractual Setting: Why, What, When and How Much?"
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. V Kumar
Dr. Luke A. Weinstein (PhD, 2008)
Assistant Professor of Marketing and Innovation Accelerator Director, University of Connecticut
Dissertation: "Technology, Adoption, and Performance in the Sales Force"
Dissertation Co-Advisors: Dr. Narasimhan Srinivasan and Dr. Michael Ahearne
Dr. Ying Jiang (PhD, 2006)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Dissertation: “The Influence of Task and Information Environment Characteristics on Consumer Search Behavior in an Online Setting.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Girish Punj
Dr. Girish Ramani (PhD, 2006)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Drexel University
Dissertation: “Interaction orientation: the new measure of marketing capabilities.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr V. Kumar
Dr. Adam Rapp (PhD, 2006)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Kent State University
Dissertation: “New insights on marketing and performance outcomes: applying a team lens.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Michael Ahearne
Dr. Camelia Micu (PhD, 2006)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Fairfield University
Dissertation: “Advertising and product trial: the impact of product type and attribute information on consumer evaluations.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Robin Coulter
Dr. Ronald Jelinek (PhD, 2005)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Providence College
Dissertation: “Uncovering the enemy within: examining salesperson deviance and its determinants.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Michael Ahearne
Dr. Tilottama Chowdhury Ghosh (PhD, 2005)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Quinnipiac University
Dissertation: “The role of the variety-seeking trait in purchases made for others.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. S. Rathneshwar
Dr. Piotr Chelminski (PhD, 2003)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Providence College
Dissertation: “The effects of culture on consumer complaining behavior.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Robin Coulter
Dr. Robert Edward McDonald (PhD, 2002)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Texas Tech University
Dissertation: “Knowledge entrepreneurship: linking organizational learning and innovation.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Narasimhan Srinivasan
Dr. Mark Steven Ligas (PhD, 2001)
Associate Professor of Marketing, Fairfield University
Dissertation: “Customer relationship orientation in response to dissatisfactory service encounters.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Robin Coulter
Dr. Robert Moore (PhD, 2000)
Associate Professor of Marketing, Mississippi State University
Dissertation: “Information search and consideration sets: a comparison of traditional and web-based decision environments.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Girish Punj
Dr. Melissa Lunt Moore (PhD, 2000)
Associate Professor of Marketing, Mississippi State University
Dissertation: “Toward understanding the consumer psychology of relationship marketing.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. S. Ratneshwar
Dr. Kiranjit (Sikand)Ahluwalia (PhD, 1999)
Dissertation: “Extrinsic and intrinsic cue utilization: effect of country-of-origin on consumer attitude, a synthesis approach.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Subhash Jain
Dr. June Shirley Cotte (PhD, 1998)
Associate Professor of Marketing, Western Ontario University
Dissertation: “Deciding what to do: a behavioral framework for leisure consumption decisions.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. S. Ratneshwar
Dr. Byeong Joon Moon (PhD, 1997)
Associate Professor of Marketing, Kyung Hee University
Dissertation: “Consumer processing of international advertising: the roles of country of origin perception, consumer ethnocentrism, and country attitude.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Subhash Jain
Dr. Harold Zane Daniel (PhD, 1997)
Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Maine
Dissertation: “The role of market entry timing in the evaluation of manufacturing technology innovations.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Donald Hempel
Dr. Julie Fitzmaurice (PhD, 1995)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Merrimack College
Dissertation: “Individual action potential: measure- ment and predictors.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Murphy Sewall
Dr. Keith Stuart Coulter (PhD, 1995)
Associate Professor of Marketing, Clark University
Dissertation: “The effects of program context on reactions to embedded ads - an integrative model.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Murphy Sewall
Dr. Junyean Moon (PhD, 1994)
Associate Professor of Marketing, Hanyang University
Dissertation: “An examination of product category representation: exemplar versus summary representation and feature versus dimension representation.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Girish Punj
Dr. Surinder Tikoo (PhD, 1994)
Associate Professor of Marketing, SUNY at New Paltz
Dissertation: “A conceptual and empirical comparison of inception and established channel relationships in franchise systems.”
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Girish Punj
