Part 1: The Role and Value of Marketing Research Information1Marketing Research for Managerial Decision Making 2The Marketing Research Process 3Information Management for Marketing Decisions: Secondary Data Sources Part 2: Technology in the Research Process4Customer Relationship Management and the Marketing Research Process 5Marketing Decision Support Systems Part 3: Designing the Marketing Research Project6Exploratory Designs: In-Depth Interviews and Focus Groups 7Descriptive Research Designs: Survey Methods and Errors 8Observation Techniques, Experiments, and Test Markets Part 4: Gathering and Collecting Accurate Data9Sampling: Theory and Design 10Sampling: Methods and Planning 11Overview of Measurement: Construct Development and Scale Measurement 12Attitude Scale Measurements Used in Marketing Research 13Questionnaire Design and Issues Part 5: Data Preparation, Analysis, and Reporting the Results 14Coding, Editing, and Preparing Data for Analysis 15Data Analysis: Testing for Significant Differences 16Data Analysis: Testing for Association 17Data Analysis: Multivariate Techniques for the Research Process 18Preparing the Marketing Research Report and Presentation
Earned a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Marketing at
the University of Florida. He began his teaching career at the
University of Mississippi and then moved to Louisiana State
University in 1977. He continues to teach at LSU, where he is the
Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Education and Family
Business Studies, and where he holds the Alvin C. Copeland Endowed
Chair of Franchising. He has acted as a management consultant
and/or expert witness for a variety of industries and has served on
the board of directors of numerous organizations. He has been an
officer of for a long list of academic organizations and he is a
Past President and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the
Academy of Marketing Science. He has been a regular contributor and
reviewer, and occasionally a member of the editorial board, for
such publications as The Journal of Marketing Research, The Journal
of Business Research, and Marketing Education Review. The list of
this scholarly publications runs to a dozen pages.
Earned a B.A. in Psychology and Economic history from St. Marys
University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Marketing at Louisiana State
University. He began his teaching career at the University of South
Florida, moved first to the University of Mississippi, and then to
The University of Memphis, where he has taught since 1993. He was
chairman of the committee on Grants and Research for the Fogleman
College of Business from 1991-1997 and Director of the Ph.D.
Program at Memphis from 1995-1997. He has been a consultant for a
wide range of corporations and institutes, as well as for the U.S.
Department of Defense. He is the coauthor of Retailing for the 21st
Century (Houghton-Mifflin, 1993) and a coeditor of Advances in
Marketing (LSU Press, 1994). He is a regular contributor to such
academic publications as Journal of Advertising, Journal of
Consumer Marketing, Journal of Marketing Education, Journal of
Direct Marketing, Journal of Health Care Marketing, and Marketing
Education Review.
Earned a B.S. in Management from Southern Illinois
UniversityCarbondale, an M.A. in Business Administration from
Illinois State University, and a Ph.D. in Marketing from Louisiana
State University. He began his teaching career at the University of
South Florida, where he continues to win awards both for
outstanding research and for outstanding teaching. He has a wide
range of research interestsfrom attitude formation and perceptual
differences in services marketing to interactive electronic
marketing technologies and their impact on information research
problems. He consults for a variety of corporations and small
businesses, with specialties in customer satisfaction, customer
service quality, customer service value, retail loyalty, and image.
He continues to serve as a member of the editorial review board for
Journal of Academy of Marketing Science and was coeditor of
Marketing: Moving Toward the 21st Century (SMA Press, 1996).
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