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Cultivating the Next Generation of Social Impact Scholars: PhD and Early Career Pathways in Business Research

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Guest editors: Dr. Amir Raki,Dr. Laura Di Pietro,Dr. Martina Caic

Introduction

Doctoral education is pivotal for shaping future business scholars, yet PhD candidates and supervisors increasingly face tensions between traditional academic expectations and the demand for research to have social impact. Social impact in business research is “creation of value for people through business scholarly activities resulting in intentional improvement in micro, meso or macro economic, human and environmental phenomena over time with the market and organisations leading, partnering, supporting or yielding (to) change” (Russell-Bennett and Reid 2026, p5). Recent studies underscore these challenges: Li et al. (2025) show how supervisory styles shape both student outcomes and supervisor well-being, while Tikkanen et al. (2024) demonstrate that supervision quality strongly predicts doctoral engagement, burnout, and overall well-being. Complementing this, Vähämäki et al. (2021) argue that doctoral supervision is embedded in leader–member relationships, highlighting power dynamics and institutional pressures that become especially salient in impact-oriented projects.

At the early career stage, Wróblewska et al. (2024) identify conflicts between pursuing academic credibility and societal contribution, while Wierenga et al. (2025) show how ECR communities can empower scholars to pursue impact despite institutional barriers. From an organisational perspective, Alfirević et al. (2025) reveal how business schools signal impact and reputation through SDG-aligned research and collaborations, while de Jong and Balaban (2022) demonstrate how university structures and strategies shape academics’ sense-making around impact. Importantly, accreditation bodies such as AACSB (2023) now explicitly call for societal impact as a core criterion in business school evaluation.

Despite these insights, there remains limited cross-national evidence on how PhD students and ECRs in business research disciplines themselves navigate these tensions in the practice of creating social impact. This special issue directly addresses this problem by positioning their experiences and contributions at the centre of debates on the social impact in business research.

List of Topic Areas

  • PhD and ECR-led research for social impact:Empirical, conceptual, or methodological contributions where doctoral students and ECRs lead the research agenda on impact-oriented business scholarship.
  • Supervisory practices for impact-focused projects:How supervisors and doctoral students navigate tensions around timelines, methods, and stakeholder engagement in socially impactful research.
  • Navigating publication pressure and societal value:How PhD students and ECRs reconcile career demands for top-tier publications with commitments to applied or impactful knowledge.
  • Methodological innovations for impact research:Novel approaches (e.g., participatory action research, design science, longitudinal fieldwork) that PhD/ECR scholars employ to connect rigorous research with social outcomes.
  • Doctoral identity and career trajectories:How engaging in socially impactful research shapes academic identity, employability, and pathways into academia, industry, or policy.
  • Collaborations and partnerships in doctoral/ECR projects:The opportunities and challenges of working with businesses, NGOs, governments, and communities as part of doctoral or postdoctoral research.
  • Institutional systems for enabling PhD/ECR social impact:Curricula, reward systems, and doctoral programme structures that support or constrain early-career scholars in pursuing social impact.
  • Policy and accreditation frameworks shaping doctoral pathways:The influence of accreditation (e.g., AACSB standards) and funding bodies in embedding social impact into doctoral and ECR training globally.

Submission Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available here:

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see:

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to “Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

This is a fully open access journal, which means all articles are published under the gold open access route, using a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 user licence. Open access journals are supported through the payment of an article processing charge (APC). APCs are typically paid for by the author’s funder or institution. However a number of organisations have established partnerships with us to cover the cost of an agreed number of gold open access articles or an agreed discount for their regions. Check to see if your institution is eligible for an open access publishing voucher

Key Dates

Opening date for manuscript submissions:12 February 2026
Closing date for manuscript submissions:10 August 2026

References

AACSB. (2023). AACSB and societal impact: Aligning with the AACSB 2020 business accreditation standards. AACSB.

Alfirević, N., Arslanagić-Kalajdžić, M., Škokić, V., & Stanić, M. (2025). Signaling impact: Research, collaboration and reputation at European business schools. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), 1–12.;

de Jong, S. P., & Balaban, C. (2022). How universities influence societal impact practices: Academics’ sense-making of organizational impact strategies. Science and Public Policy, 49(4), 609–620.;

Li, Y., Xu, W., & Chen, J. (2025). PhD student–supervisor relationship and its impacts: A perspective of the interpersonal relationship model. Frontiers in Education, 10, 1570137.;

Russell-Bennett, R. & Reid, M. (2026). Editorial: Social impact in business research, Journal of Social Impact in Business Research, Vol 2(1), 1-19.;

Tikkanen, L., Ketonen, E., Toom, A., & Pyhältö, K. (2024). PhD candidates’ and supervisors’ wellbeing and experiences of supervision. Higher Education, 1–19.;

Vähämäki, M., Saru, E., & Palmunen, L. M. (2021). Doctoral supervision as an academic practice and leader–member relationship: A critical approach to relationship dynamics. The International Journal of Management Education, 19(3), 100510.;

Wierenga, M., Heucher, K., Chen, S., Grewatsch, S., & Montgomery, A. W. (2025). Communities for impact: Empowering early-career researchers in the pursuit of impact. Strategic Organization, 23(1), 19–30.;

Wróblewska, M. N., Balaban, C., Derrick, G., & Benneworth, P. (2024). The conflict of impact for early career researchers planning for a future in the academy. Research Evaluation, 33, rvad024..

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]]> 234515 Life Transitions /listings/2026/04/30/life-transitions/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:21:13 +0000 /?post_type=ama_listing&p=234366 Understanding Consumer Psychology across Life Transitions, Special issue of Psychology & Marketing; Deadline 15 Dec 2026

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Call for Papers

Understanding Consumer Psychology across Life Transitions

Submissions will be open on 15thSeptember 2026 for a final deadline of 15thDecember 2026

Contemporary life is complex, defying age-related, linear pathways, traditionally structured around schooling, work, family and retirement (Elder 1994). Nowadays, people live longer, engage in regular career shifts due to job precarity or better opportunities, abide to norms like divorce, gender change and/or frequent relocation. Broader disruptions, like financial crises, technological innovations, sustainability pressures, interact with personal life events, to create short-term, extended and/or recurring transitions, involving uncertainties and vulnerabilities, requiring consumers to be resilient (Szmigin et al. 2020; Mende et al. 2024; Hosany et al. 2025). In this special issue, life events refer to identifiable change episodes (e.g., childbirth, divorce, relocation), with life transitions entailing the broader, often extended and non-linear periods of disruption, liminality, and adaptation that may unfold (see Moschis 2012).

Life transitions entail conflicting cues, changes to oneself, uncertain value, irreversibility and risk (Hechtlinger et al. 2024). They generate resource scarcity (Hosany & Hamilton 2023), disrupt routines, identities (Mimoun et al. 2025), dictate consumer responses to ads (Borenstein et al. 2025), influence retail patronage (Lee et al. 2001), reshaping how consumers perceive, evaluate, and consume (e.g. Noble & Walker 1997; Stammerjohan et al. 2007; Liu et al. 2024). Life transitions can be highly emotional (e.g. Yao et al. 2025), create situations of liminality (O’Loughlin et al. 2024), guiding how consumers interact with brands (Su et al. 2021), markets and service systems (Kelleher et al. 2020). Given their transformative potential, with enduring consequences that shape life trajectories, satisfaction and well-being, life transitions pose significant challenges.

To date, research on life transitions mainly focusses on a limited range of key life events predominantly, in first world countries (Yap & Kapitan 2017). As life courses become fragmented, the need for theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches that capture disruption, and adaptation become increasingly urgent (see also Moschis 2021). Transitions revolve around moments where individuals may be more receptive to learning, intervention, and institutional support, making them critical for academic and policy-focused investigation. Our special issue inPsychology & Marketingseeks to advance understanding of the psychological mechanisms through which life transitions impact cognition, emotion, identity, well-being, and influence marketing strategy. We welcome work that examines transitions as dynamic processes, explores heterogeneity in transitional experiences, and identifies boundary conditions (e.g., planned versus unplanned; positive versus negative transitions); duration and reversibility; resource slack; social support; and culturally embedded scripts that determine when marketing interventions help consumers adapt versus exacerbate vulnerability or harm.

This special issue aims to promote discussion, stimulate debate and advance knowledge on psychological research and actionable insights for marketers seeking to ethically engage consumers, promote well-being and transformative outcomes. We particularly encourage research examining underexplored transitions, populations, social and cultural contexts. We invite authors to submit conceptual, empirical, and methodological contributions relating to how consumers navigate change across the life course and welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Psychological Processes During Life Transitions
    • What are the psychological consequences of experiencing multiple, concurrent, or sequential transitions? How do they influence marketing and consumption? What are the underlying psychological processes?
    • When and why do life transitions expand versus constrain identity, shape consumption practices, trajectories and marketplace interactions?
    • What forms of consumption foster resilience rather than dependency during life transitions?
    • How do consumers/consumer groups across socio-cultural contexts reimagine rituals, routines, habits, skills, creativity due to life transitions?
    • Do generations differ in perceptions and responses to life events and related transitions?
    • How do emotional dynamics manifest during different types of transitions?
    • How do transitions compare, e.g. does having children impact on life satisfaction and well-being in the same way as weddings, divorce or migration?
    • How do life transitions reshape individuals’ cognitive and motivational processes, leading them to favour earlier but smaller outcomes rather than larger, longer-term ones under conditions of resource constraint?
    • What novel psychological constructs/perspectives can be used to further develop the phenomenon of transitions?
    • How do life transitions shape the creation of memorable experiences?
  • Liminality and Consumption
    • How do liminal states influence consumer judgment and decision-making during transitions?
    • What is the impact of transitions that precipitate and sustain liminality on consumer experiences and identity?
    • What roles do objects, possessions and brands play in stabilising, bridging, or transforming the self during liminal transitions?
    • What roles do marketing and consumption play post liminal transformation in reconstructing identity?
  • Consumer Vulnerability and Well-Being
    • How are coping strategies, perceived control, and resilience conceptualised under conditions of heightened uncertainty, disruption, and overlapping societal challenges that increasingly characterise contemporary life transitions?
    • How do vulnerable consumers respond to life transitions?
    • In what ways do life transitions, value co-creation and well-being interact in shaping transformative outcomes?
    • How does socio-economic status influence consumer responses to life transitions?
  • Services, Service Systems and Transitions
    • How do life transitions impact on leisure, travel and tourism?
    • How do innovative technologies (e.g. AI, robotics) support consumers during and post life transitions?
    • How can service design and front-line employees facilitate consumer transitions?
    • How do market structures and service systems buffer or exacerbate transition-related vulnerability?
  • Marketing Strategy and Transitions
    • How do consumers respond to advertising appeals during and post transitions?
    • How can brands shape advertising strategy during times of change? (e.g. personalisation, message framing, targeting, timing, social media)
    • How can businesses frame brand extensions, pricing, and product strategy for consumers in transition?
    • What role does economic precarity play in shaping consumer behaviour due to transitions?
    • How can marketers use the power of storytelling, narratives and languages in interpreting life events and transitions? Do transitions favour utilitarian versus luxury purchases; planned versus impulse buys?
  • Methodological Approaches
    • How can we ethically identify and study consumers in transitions? What ethical challenges do researchers encounter?
    • What indicators best capture transition onset, intensity, and resolution?
    • How can longitudinal, panel designs or innovative research methods capture pre-, during-, and post-transition phases, including their intensity, and duration?
    • How can researchers and marketers use digital trace or textual data (e.g., narratives, social media, service interactions) in interpreting life transitions?

Guest Editors

Dr. A. R. Shaheen Hosany
Hult International Business School
United Kingdom

Prof. Deirdre O’Loughlin
University of Limerick,
Ireland

Prof. Hong Xiao
Durham University
United Kingdom

Prof. Sheau-Fen Yap
Auckland University of Technology
New Zealand

Keywords

Life transitions, life events, liminality, consumer psychology

Supporting Event

We will hold a virtual supporting event to provide feedback on papers in progress on the 17thJune 2026, for authors who plan to submit to the SI. If you would like to participate, please submit a 200-word abstract by 31stMay 2026 via email toshaheen.hosany@faculty.hult.edu. This event will be optional; authors do not need to participate to submit to the special issue.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions will be open on15thSeptember 2026for a final deadline of15thDecember 2026. To submit a manuscript, authors should follow the manuscript submission guidelines outlined in theofPsychology & Marketing. Please select the correct special issue and include in the letter to the editor.

References

Borenstein, B. E., Milfeld, T., & Nowlan, L. (2025). Life Transitions Influence Response to Ad Repetition: When Times of Change Increase Preference for Repeat Advertising Experiences.Journal of Advertising Research, 1-18.

Elder Jr, G. H. (1994). Time, human agency, and social change: Perspectives on the life course.Social Psychology Quarterly, 4-15.

Hechtlinger, S., Schulze, C., Leuker, C., & Hertwig, R. (2024). The psychology of life’s most important decisions.American Psychologist.

Hosany, A. S., & Hamilton, R. W. (2023). Family responses to resource scarcity.Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science,51(6), 1351-1381.

Hosany, A. S., Prayag, G., & Bettany, S. (2025). Consumer resilience in an era of disruptions.Journal of Marketing Management, 41(11-12), 1061-1069.

Kelleher, C., O’Loughlin, D., Gummerus, J., & Peñaloza, L. (2020). Shifting arrays of a kaleidoscope: the orchestration of relational value cocreation in service systems.Journal of Service Research, 23(2), 211-228.

Lee, E., Moschis, G. P., & Mathur, A. (2001). A study of life events and changes in patronage preferences.Journal of Business Research, 54(1), 25-38.

Liu, C., Karanika, K., & Hogg, M. K. (2024). Self‐gifting and temporal selves: Insights from first‐time older motherhood.Psychology & Marketing, 41(9), 1934-1943.

Mende, M., Bradford, T. W., Roggeveen, A. L., Scott, M. L., & Zavala, M. (2024). Consumer vulnerability dynamics and marketing: Conceptual foundations and future research opportunities.Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 52(5), 1301-1322.

Mimoun, L., Lapostolle, M. H., & Schmitt, J. (2025). Reconstructing collective Identity: How consumers mobilize brands and consumption practices after major life disruptions.International Journal of Research in Marketing.

Moschis, G. P. (2012). Consumer behavior in later life: Current knowledge, issues, and new directions for research.Psychology & Marketing, 29(2), 57-75.

Moschis, G. P. (2021). The life course paradigm and consumer behavior: Research frontiers and future directions.Psychology & Marketing,38(11), 2034-2050.

Noble, C. H., & Walker, B. A. (1997). Exploring the relationships among liminal transitions, symbolic consumption, and the extended self.Psychology & Marketing,14(1), 29-47.

O’Loughlin, D., Gummerus, J., & Kelleher, C. (2024). It never ends: vulnerable consumers’ experiences of persistent liminality and resource (mis) integration.Journal of service Research, 27(3), 327-345.

Stammerjohan, C. A., Capella, L. M., & Taylor, R. D. (2007). Retirement and transition phenomena in the family purchase process.Psychology & Marketing,24(3), 225-251.

Su, L., Monga, A. S. B., & Jiang, Y. (2021). How life-role transitions shape consumer responses to brand extensions.Journal of Marketing Research, 58(3), 579-594.

Szmigin, I.T., O’Loughlin, D.M., McEachern, M., Karantinou, K., Barbosa, B., Lamprinakos, G. and Fernández-Moya, M.E. (2020), “Keep calm and carry on: European consumers and the development of persistent resilience in the face of austerity”,European Journal of Marketing,54 (8), 1883-1907.

Yao, Y., Yang, M., Wang, X., Yang, Q., & Song, M. (2025). How Life‐Role Transitions Shape Consumer Preferences for Nostalgic Consumption.Journal of Consumer Behaviour.

Yap, S. F., & Kapitan, S. (2017). Consumption coping and life transitions: An integrative review.Australasian Marketing Journal,25(3), 194-205.

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]]> 234366 AI as a Shopping Companion /listings/2026/04/30/ai-as-a-shopping-companion/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:19:34 +0000 /?post_type=ama_listing&p=234894 Mechanisms Shaping Product Basket and Returns, Special issue of the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management; Deadline 1 Nov 2026

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Introduction

Digitalisation has multiplied the media, channels, and touchpoints through which consumers and firms interact, reshaping the customer journey around digital experiences (Schweidel et al., 2022; Grewal et al., 2024).

In parallel, the rapid maturation of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), is pushing both scholars and managers to rethink how human actors engage with, rely on, and derive value from technological systems, and to revisit the design of these interactions as well as their governance (Aiolfi, 2023; Huang and Rust, 2018, 2021; Guha et al., 2021; Cao et al., 2021).

Against this backdrop, a growing body of research shows that AI is increasingly becoming a central shopping companion across the entire customer journey, supporting consumers from product discovery and evaluation in the pre-purchase stage, to basket building and checkout at purchase, and into post-purchase activities such as customer service and returns (Chaturvedi et al., 2023; Ameen et al., 2025).

Compared with traditional recommender systems, AI companions are powered by language models and conversational interfaces that do more than filter information. They can operate as interactive decision partners, engaging consumers in dialogue, adaptively tailoring support, and providing cognitive scaffolding. Through these mechanisms, AI companions can directly shape how preferences are constructed, how uncertainty is interpreted, and how choices are ultimately made (Bertacchini et al., 2017; Chaturvedi et al., 2024).

At the same time, the conversational nature of AI-mediated assistance introduces dynamics that are not yet fully understood. These include real-time persuasion and framing, the delegation of decisions to “the system”, the emergence and calibration of trust, perceived agency and controllability, the role of explanation and disclosure, and the effects of anthropomorphism. Taken together, these elements can make the interaction feel closer to an ongoing relationship than to a single, isolated touchpoint (Kemp et al., 2025; Li et al., 2025; Fiestas Lopez Guido et al., 2024; Westphal et al., 2023).

Despite that, the literature has devoted little attention to how AI companions affect downstream outcomes that matter for both retail performance and consumer welfare. In particular, we still know too little about whether, and under what conditions, an AI companion can increase or decrease basket conversion among consumers who are already expected to purchase, or how conversational assistance may contribute to monitoring and shaping assortment status. Outcomes such as basket conversion, assortment shaping, and returns are strategically consequential for firms, platforms, and shoppers, yet they remain less systematically examined than upstream constructs such as adoption, user experience, trust, and intention-based measures. Relatedly, prior work has only partially unpacked conversion quality, the mechanisms through which conversation steers assortment exploration and basket composition, and the post-purchase implications of conversational assistance.

As a result, our understanding remains incomplete regarding the conditions under which assistant guidance improves preference-product fit and long-term value, versus when it accelerates decisions that amplify mismatch, encourage opportunistic trial behaviours, or increase operational costs through returns.

This Special Issue aims to address this gap by inviting new conceptual, methodological, qualitative, and quantitative contributions that advance insight into this domain.

List of Topic Areas

  • What psychological and informational mechanisms explain the effect of AI companions on basket conversion? How do these effects vary with trust, perceived agency, and disclosure in conversational assistance?
  • To what extent do AI companions alter assortment exploration and basket structure in terms of variety seeking, complementarity, substitution patterns, and price sensitivity?
  • Which conversational features (e.g., framing, explanations, tone, memory) act as key drivers?
  • When does AI-induced conversion translate into higher decision quality and ex post satisfaction, and when does it instead generate regret, decision deferral, or dependence on assistance?
  • What is the impact of AI companions on returns, distinguishing between informational mismatch, fit errors, overbuying, and opportunistic behaviours, and how do these dynamics vary across product categories and channels (online vs. omnichannel)?
  • How can companion design (e.g., explainability, user controls, limits on persuasion, “pro-social” nudges) reduce returns and increase decision quality without depressing conversion and revenues?
  • What are the distributional effects of AI companions on consumers with different levels of digital literacy and vulnerability, and which policies or governance standards are needed to ensure transparency, accountability, and fairness?

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at:

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see:

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to“Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions:01/05/2026
Closing date for manuscripts submission:01/11/2026
Final acceptance date:15/04/2027

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]]> 234894 The Role of Infrastructure in Shaping Consumption /listings/2026/04/30/the-role-of-infrastructure-in-shaping-consumption/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:07:50 +0000 /?post_type=ama_listing&p=234890 Where Consumers Meet Markets, Special issue of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research; Deadline 1 Oct 2027

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Call for Papers

The Role of Infrastructure in Shaping Consumption

Issue Editors: Yuliya Komarova, Hoori Rafieian, and Lauren Block

This issue examines consumer infrastructures, including systems, institutions, and material arrangements that organize access to core domains of everyday consumption such as housing, mobility, food, finance, digital platforms, data, health services, and education. Infrastructure is where consumers most concretely “meet” the marketplace: from transit networks determining access to work and healthcare, to platform algorithms allocating visibility and price, to financial systems enabling or constraining basic transactions. Consumer research has tended to analyze outcomes at the micro level (attitudes, preferences, persuasion) or to focus on discrete domains (e.g., health, food, environmental behavior), without treating the infrastructure itself as a unit of analysis. Rather than focusing on individual attitudes or isolated policy interventions, this issue centers the structural architectures that shape when, how, and whether consumers can participate meaningfully in markets.

For a complete description of the topic, including submission ideas, details about related events and editor bios, please see the call for papers:

Editorial Timeline

  • TCR Conference: June 1-4, 2027
  • Informational webinar and Q&A: July 1, 2027
  • Submission portal opens: August 1, 2027
  • First submission deadline: October 1, 2027
  • Final decisions: September 1, 2028
  • Publication: January 2029

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]]> 234890 DocSIG Officer Candidates /listings/2026/04/29/docsig-officer-candidates/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:17:08 +0000 /?post_type=ama_listing&p=234557 DocSIG is looking for motivated marketing doctoral students to join its leadership team

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Attention Marketing Doctoral Students!

DocSIG (Doctoral Student Special Interest Group) is looking for motivated marketing doctoral students to join its leadership team for the 2026–2027 academic year. If you’ve been considering getting involved, this is your opportunity.

Several officer positions are open! Applications are due by June 30, 2026, and early applicants will receive priority consideration.

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]]> 234557 Mathew Joseph Award /listings/2026/04/29/mathew-joseph-award-15/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:14:44 +0000 /?post_type=ama_listing&p=234523 The 's DocSIG invites applications for the Mathew Joseph Emerging Scholar Award; Deadline 15 May 2026

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]]> 234523 Introduction to Survey Design /listings/2026/04/29/introduction-to-survey-design/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:13:49 +0000 /?post_type=ama_listing&p=234522 An instats seminar, 15-16 Jun 2026

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]]> 234522 ISBM Doctoral Support Awards /listings/2026/04/29/isbm-doctoral-support-awards-7/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:10:04 +0000 /?post_type=ama_listing&p=234359 Hongye Sun, Liuyi Wang and Soniya Gupta-Rawal have won awards from the Institute for the Study of Business Markets

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Winners have been named in the thirty-fifth annual Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) Doctoral Support Award Competition. Via the competition, the ISBM provides financial support for PhD dissertations for candidates in accredited doctoral programs.

This year three winners were selected and named ISBM Doctoral Fellows. Each will receive a cash award to support their research. The winning proposals illustrate the breadth of the B2B marketing domain.

Award Winners

Outstanding Submission:

Hongye Sunof the University of Utah won the award for the outstanding submission with his dissertation proposal, Utilization Turn: From Resource Acquisition to Resource Activation in Sales Organizations. His Ph.D. Advisors are Stephen Carson and Catherine Tucker

Other Winners:

Liuyi Wangof the University of Arizona won with her dissertation proposal, History, Strategy, and Organizational Design: Vertical Integration Decisions Under Supplier Industry Horizontal Integration. Her Ph.D. Advisor is Mrinal Ghosh.

Soniya Gupta-Rawalof the University of Cambridge won with her dissertation proposal, Governing B2B Knowledge Marketplaces: Matching Frictions, Fit, and Engagement on a Global Mentoring Platform. Her Ph.D. Advisor is Jaideep Prabhu.

This year there were nineteen entrants from which eight finalists were selected. Dissertation entries are judged on the rigor of the proposed work and the relevance of that work to business-to-business marketing practice. For more information about the competition, email the ISBM at ISBM@psu.eduor visit our website for current information.

Headquartered in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State, the ISBM has been supporting business-to-business marketing research and practice since 1983. To date, ISBM has supported 134doctoral students. Funding for this competition comes from the generous support of the ISBM Corporate Members.

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