Alumni of the Chaifetz School’s Ph.D. in international business and marketing program have leveraged their education at Saint Louis University to build successful careers at a wide range of academic institutions.
Yunmei Kuang
Assistant Professor of Marketing at Utah Valley University
Dissertation: "Brand Scandals and Brand Communities: Insights from the Volkswagen Emission Scandal"
Nicolas Jankuhn
Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of Southern Indiana
Dissertation: "Is All Money Created Equal? – The Case of Mobile Wallets and Their
Influence on Payment Behavior"
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Woojong Sim
Assistant Professor at Emporia State University
Dissertation: “Let’s not talk about that”: Effects of CPA and Tie Strength on WOM
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Douglas A. Roy
Visiting Lecturer of Marketing at State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Dissertation: "A Critical Perspective on Cooperation: Two Essays on Co-creation"
Christine Asencio
Assistant Professor of Management at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Dissertation: "The Internationalization of Social Enterprises: A Managerial Perspective"
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Clark Johnson
Assistant Professor of Marketing at Pepperdine University
Dissertation: "Intercultural Negotiations: Examining Change in Processing, Attitudes,
and Intentions Through Episodic Modeling Approach"
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Brittney Bauer
Assistant Professor of Marketing at Loyola University New Orleans
Dissertation: "Divergence in Brand Community Membership: The Role of Social Distance
& Competing Construal"
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Shih-Hao (Steven) Liu
Assistant Professor of Marketing at St. Cloud State University
Dissertation: "The Dark Side of Product Touch – Haptic Information Overload"
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Sang Bong Lee
Assistant Professor of Marketing at Black Hills State University
Dissertation: "Employees’ Extra-Role Behaviors Inside and Outside the Organization"
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Chuandi Jiang
Assistant Professor of Marketing at Emporia State University
Dissertation: "National Culture and the Breadth and Depth of Firms’ International
Diversification Portfolio Strategy: The Attenuating Effects of Social Contacts and
the Coevolution"
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Zhan Wang
Associate Professor Of Marketing at St. Cloud State University
Dissertation: "Can Brand Pages Help Companies Communicate with Customers on Social
Media?"
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Jieqiong Ma
Assistant Professor of Marketing at Hofstra University
Dissertation: "State Ownership, Governmental Customer Concentration, and Firm Innovation"
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Michael A. Frechette
Assistant Professor of Marketing at Sacred Heart University
Dissertation: "Peer to Peer Collaborative Consumption, Social Distance, and the Extended
Self"
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Wootae Chun
Associate Professor of Marketing at the Univeristy of Northern British Columbia
Dissertation: "An Examination of the Relationships Between Consumer Attitudes Linked
to Globalization, Customer Citizenship Behavior (CCB) Toward Foreign Firms, and Foreign
Product Purchase Intention"
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Alexey V. Semenov
Assistant Professor of International Business and International Management at Belmont University
Dissertation: "Offsetting Liability of Foreignness within Various Geographic and Institutional
Contexts: Examining the Effects of Cultural Intelligence and Firm’s Advantages on
the MNE’s International Strategic Choices"
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Arilova A. Randrianasolo
Assistant Professor and Chair of Marketing Department at Butler University
Dissertation: "Gaining Consumer Legitimacy: Developing a Measure and Framework of
Legitimacy within Consumer Stakeholders"
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Takisha A. Salley-Toler
Associate Professor at Stevenson University
Dissertation: "The Formation and Examination of the Multiethnic Consumer Identity
Construct in the Context of Culture Specific Brand Attitudes"
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Colleen M. Harmeling
Persis E. Rockwood Associate Professor of Marketing at Florida State University
Dissertation: "Defining Moments: Effects of Transformational Relationship Events on
Firm Performance"
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Birton J. Cowden
Academic Director, Robin and Doug Shore Entrepreneurship Center at Kennesaw State University
Dissertation: "Finding Innovative New Ventures in China and the United States: An
Institutional Context"
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John Charles Blewitt
Assistant Professor of Management at King's College
Dissertation: "A Time of Crisis is a Time of Opportunity for Organizations: A Strategic
Examination of Managerial Response and Stakeholder Perception in Times of Crisis"
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Karin M. Staub
Research Associate with the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO
Dissertation: "Multilingual Print Advertisements and Cosmopolitanism: Associations,
Perceptions, and Attitudes Triggered by Foreign Interrupts"
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Carri R. Tolmie
Assistant Professor of International Business at Elon University
Dissertation: "Values and Governance and Policies, Oh My: An Institutional- Stakeholder
Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility"
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Weidong Rong
Assistant Professor of Marketing at The College of Brockport State University of New York
Dissertation: "Bring Social Capital Theory Back to the Individual Level: A Multi-Level
View of Salesperson’s Social Network"
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