Call for Proposals

Dear Colleague,

Recently I assumed a new role as the collection editor for sports and entertainment marketing and management for a publishing company—Business Expert Press—that has a new business model. We are looking for new manuscripts on important topics in sports and entertainment marketing and management.

Business Expert Press (BEP, http://www.businessexpertpress.com/) is a world-leading resource in business education with a strong track record in publishing and distributing books across all fields and emerging topics in business. The company publishes collections of concise, academically sound and applied books for the purpose of providing supplemental material for undergraduate, MBA, and executive business education. Books are available in both print and e-book formats. These short books (75-150 pages) will be supplemented, as necessary, with cases, articles, newsletters and podcasts, and to this end BEP distributes its books through ECCH, SIPX and Harvard Business Publishing – the leading providers of course packs.  Please visit BEP at www.businessexpertpress.com to get a feel for who and what we publish in other areas of business.

There are several reasons why you might want to consider publishing a book with BEP. You could use such a book in your teaching, both in traditional settings and executive settings. The book could enhance your consulting practice. It would give you an easy “underlined item” on your vita. Business Expert Press will sell the books both in print and in digital collections to the business school libraries of the world. The library market is large – 7000 libraries globally – and the prices paid for these one-time sales are relatively high when compared to one-time, direct-to-consumer sales. Thus they yield good royalty potential.

My job as collection editor will be to guide you (the expert) through the topic selection, assist you in achieving an executive-oriented tone in your writing, and then support you through the production process. Professional editors will also help you polish the manuscript. Business Expert Press employs a quick, 120-day production timeline. All editors and operations are based in the United States.

This collection will capture the latest thinking, experiences and results in the increasingly important area of sports and entertainment services,
management and marketing,
which integrates a variety of
disciplines — including areas in
communication, social sciences, leisure studies, and
management–to focus education,
research and practice on an
expanding sports and entertainment economy.
Sports and entertainment  encompasses the
application of scientific, experiential,
and management disciplines to
tasks that one organization
performs beneficially for others,
generally as part of the sports and entertainment
sector of the economy.

Converting your expertise into actionable knowledge for executives is an important contribution that many of us in business education should make. If you have an idea for a book on sports or entertainment marketing or management that would fit this business model, please contact me. I look forward to hearing from you further about this opportunity.

Sincerely,

Lynn R. Kahle, BEP Sports and Entertainment Marketing and Management Acquisitions Editor

Warsaw Sports Marketing Center

University of Oregon

lkahle@uoregon.edu, and

Rob Zwettler, BEP Executive Acquisitions Editor

rob.zwettler@businessexpertpress.com

Hope to see everyone in Boston!

Professor Bettman’s publications include two books, An Information Processing Theory of Consumer Choice and The Adaptive Decision Maker, and a monograph, Emotional Decisions: Tradeoff Difficulty and Coping in Consumer Choice. His research papers appear in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and Management Science, among others. He is a member of the editorial review boards for the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, and Journal of Consumer Psychology. He was co-editor of the Journal of Consumer Research for six years, editor of Monographs of the Journal of Consumer Research for five years, and president of the Association for Consumer Research.

Dr. Bettman has received numerous awards during his illustrious academic career. He received the NCNB Faculty Award for the Fuqua School, was named the Duke University Scholar/Teacher of the Year, and received a teaching award at UCLA. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Association for Consumer Research. He has received the Harold Maynard Award, the Paul D. Converse Award for contributions to marketing theory and thought, was named the AMA/Irwin/McGraw-Hill Marketing Educator of the Year by the American Marketing Association, received the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for Consumer Psychology, was awarded the Leo Melamed Prize for outstanding scholarship by business school faculty, and was named a highly cited researcher in Economics/Business by ISI Web of Science.

The AMA CBSIG Lifetime Achievement award honors a tenured professor with a career of sustained excellence and meritorious contributions in Consumer Behavior research. Congratulations again to Dr. James R. Bettman for a well-deserved honor.

Szu-Chi Huang is a marketing doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin who will join Stanford University in the Fall of 2013 as an Assistant Professor of Marketing. Szu-Chi’s research interests are in the areas of consumer motivation, self-regulation, social interactions in goal pursuit, and prosocial behaviors. She has published in several prestigious academic journals, which include the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research (three articles), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (two articles), and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. She has also presented papers at several national conferences such as ACR, AMA Winter, SCP, and American Academy of Advertising (AAA). Nominated by Dr. Susan M. Broniarczyk (Sam Barshop Centennial Professor in Marketing Administration at UT Austin), Szu-Chi has received several prestigious awards and honors including the William Powers, Jr. Presidential Graduate Fellowship (UT-Austin), Continuing Endowed David & Mary Miller Fellowship (awarded to top 1% of graduate students at UT-Austin), and AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellow.

Further information about the conference and the submission guidelines are available at: http://www.ams-web.org/cde.cfm?event=379890

The CFP can be found here: http://www.ams-web.org/associations/213/files/2013%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf?convnbr=11208

Submission Deadline: December 7, 2012. Please email us if you have any questions.

Hope to see you all in beautiful Monterey, California!

Dipayan Biswas (dbiswas at usf.edu) and Lauren Labrecque (llabrecque at luc.edu), Co-Chairs, Sensory Marketing Track, AMS 2013, Monterey, CA

*  Demonstrated research productivity (e.g., presented a conference paper, published a consumer behavior paper). Doing such at an AMA conference or journal is plus.

*  Be a member of the CBSIG of the American Marketing Association (AMA) at the time of application.

Applications must be in one pdf document including:

1. Cover letter (from the potential CBSIG RISING STAR) as to why you would be a good representative of the AMA for the award.
2. Current curriculum vitae.
3. One signed recommendation letter from your dissertation chair or a tenured faculty with a to attest for the nominee’s research impact and contribution in the area of consumer behavior.

All applications must be received by 5pm EST on Friday, December 7, 2012. Email one pdf document file to: awards@cbsig.org

Please contact Stevie Watson, VP of Awards swatson2@udayton.edu or Kate Pounders, kate.pounders@unlv.edu VP of Membership with questions.

The winner will receive a plaque at the 2013 AMA Winter Educators’ Conference and be featured in the CBSIG.ORG. The winner will be notified by late January. We look forward to your application!

The CBSIG Leadership Team:

Angeline Close, Lauren Labrecque, Linda Tuncay, Colleen Bee, Ereni Markos, Kate Pounders, Spencer Ross, Yan Meng, Stevie Watson, Kara Baker, Yupin Patara

ELIGIBILITY

Nominees (self nominees welcomed) must meet the following screening criteria in order to apply:

*  Be currently enrolled in a doctoral program in marketing or related field.

*  Be a member of AMS at the time of application.

*  Be involved in the conference in which funds are requested (e.g., presenter, discussant, session chair).

EVALUATIVE CRITERIA

A subcommittee of AMS officers and directors select winners based on the following criteria:

*  Your role in the conference (e.g., competitive paper, special session presenter).

*  Your cover letter explaining why you are a deserving grant recipient.

*  The perceived quality and interest among AMS members in the research.

TO APPLY

Applications must be in one pdf document including:

1. Cover letter specifying which conference you are applying for and why you are a good representative for AMS.

2. Extended abstract of the paper you will be presenting and/ or proof of other conference involvement.

3. One signed recommendation letter from your dissertation chair or a tenured faculty from your department that says how the award funding would help make this conference possible for you.

4. Email one pdf document file to Angeline Close, Director of Doctoral Student & Junior Faculty Initiatives: angeline@mail.utexas.edu

5. Due Date: AMS Annual Conference Applications must be received by March 1.

Academy of Marketing Science

Louisiana Tech University

P.O. Box 3072

Ruston, LA 71272

Phone: (318) 257-2612

Fax: (318) 257-4253

*  Be employed as a tenured professor at an AACSB university.

*  Have a significant number of published journal articles in the area of consumer behavior with citations in high quality marketing journals and business, psychology, or related journals.

*  Be a member of the CBSIG of the American Marketing Association (AMA) at the time of application.

Applications must be in one pdf document including:

1. Cover letter from nominee (not to exceed four pages) as to why you would be a good representative of the AMA for the award.
2. Current curriculum vitae.
3. Three signed recommendation letters from tenured marketing professors to attest for the nominee’s research impact and contribution to marketing academicians and practitioners in the area of consumer behavior. At least one recommendation letter must come from a tenured marketing professor outside of the nominee’sinstitution.

All applications must be received by 5pm EST on Friday, December 7, 2012. Email one pdf document file to: awards@cbsig.org

Please contact Stevie Watson, VP of Awards swatson2@udayton.edu or Kate Pounders, kate.pounders@unlv.edu VP of Membership with questions.

The winner will receive a plaque at the 2013 AMA Winter Educators’ Conference and be featured in the CBSIG.ORG. The winner will be notified by late January. We look forward to your application!

The CBSIG Leadership Team:

Angeline Close, Lauren Labrecque, Linda Tuncay, Colleen Bee, Ereni Markos, Kate Pounders, Spencer Ross, Yan Meng, Stevie Watson, Kara Baker, Yupin Patara

Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management

Cordially Invites You to a Reception at the

AMA Summer Educators’ Conference

When: Friday, August 17, 2012 @ 8:30 PM.

Where: The same hotel as the

     AMA Conference

Please Check the Reception Desk or call one of the following persons after noon on August 17 for room information:

John Taylor, Dept. Chair, @ 517-719-0275 or

Abhijit Guha, Assistant Professor, @ 313-522-0064

Wine & Dessert Firework Boat Tour | Sat. Aug 18 9-11pm 

Register now to save your spot!