The Ph.D. Marketing Concentration Areas of Research Focus

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Excel in research, teaching, and leadership positions in academia. Conduct and publish cutting-edge research on consumer behavior, marketing strategy, business-to-business, and more. Our Doctors of Business Administration faculty have broad research interests that span key areas: 

  • Business-to-Business marketing
  • Communication: Advertising and promotion
  • Consumer behavior
  • Consumer privacy
  • Culture
  • Emerging markets
  • Ethics
  • Fashion
  • International marketing
  • Marketing strategy
  • Materialism
  • New product and technology adoption
  • Retailing
  • Sales management
  • Sales performance
  • Sustainability

*Faculty use both quantitative and qualitative techniques and have worked on scale development.

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