2009
Who Went Where? Survey Results
Conducted by the Doctoral Student
Special Interest Group
(DocSIG) of the
American Marketing
Association
http://docsig.eci.gsu.edu
Veronica Thomas
Kevin J. Trainor
Todd Weaver
Hulda Black
MarketingPower.com
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2009 “Who Went Where” Survey Results
*Compiled by Kevin Trainor (ktrainor@kent.edu) and Veronica Thomas (vseevers@kent.edu)
Name
Degree-Granting Institution
Hiring Institution
Scott Thompson
Sameer Mathur
Andrew Stephen
Peter Jarnebrant
Komal Karani
Abhijit Guha
Lisa Cavanaugh
Sarah Moore
Song Yao
Adina Barbulescu
Steven Sweldens
Gavin L. Fox
Mike Giebelhausen
Philippe Duverger
Janee Burkhalter
Renee Ann Richardson
Hao Shen
Yuwei Jiang
Mauricio Palmeira
Shuoyang Zhang
Joseph Lajos
Bram Van den Bergh
Claudia Costiuc
Kevin Trainor
Raj Agnihotri
Anna Walz
Mazen Jaber
Jacqueline van Beuningen
Ceren Kolsarici
Massimiliano Ostinelli
M. Billur Akdeniz
Bing Xu
Pia A. Albinsson
Yam B. Limbu
Aronté Bennett
Jeff Galak
Ashlee Humphreys
Breagin Riley
Arizona State U.
Carnegie Mellon U.
Columbia U.
Columbia U.
Drexel U.
Duke U.
Duke U.
Duke U.
Duke U.
Emory U.
Erasmus U.
Florida State U.
Florida State U.
George Washington U.
Georgia State U.
Harvard Business School
Hong Kong U. of Science & Tech.
Hong Kong U. of Science & Tech.
Indiana U.
Indiana U.
INSEAD
K.U. Leuven
Kent State U.
Kent State U.
Kent State U.
Louisiana State U.
Louisiana State U.
Maastricht U.
McGill U.
McGill U.
Michigan State U.
New Mexico State U.
New Mexico State U.
New Mexico State U.
New York U.
New York U.
Northwestern U.
Northwestern U.
U. of Georgia
McGill U.
INSEAD
European School of Management and Tech.
Lamar U.
Wayne State U.
U. of Southern California
U. of Alberta
Northwestern U.
U. of Tennessee
INSEAD
Texas Tech U.
Cornell U.-School of Hotel Administration
Towson U.
Saint Joseph's U.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Polytechnic U.
Monash U.
Colorado State U.
HEC Paris
Erasmus U.
Purdue U.-Calumet
Canisius College
Towson U.
Grand Valley State U.
Saginaw Valley State U.
Maastricht U.
Queen's U.
U. of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
U. of New Hampshire
California State U.-Dominguez Hills
Appalachian State U.
Montclair State U.
Villanova U.
Carnegie Mellon U.
Northwestern U.-Medill School of Journalism
Syracuse U.
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Name
Degree-Granting Institution
Hiring Institution
Kanishka Misra
Jeff Dotson
Fernando Jimenez
Kristin Scott
Kunter Gunasti
Stanford A. Westjohn
Cassie Mogilner
Michael Rodriguez
Thomas Dotzel
Pelin Bicen
Bjoern Frank
Vivek Dalela
Shenyu Li
James R. Carver
Lin Guo
Michelle F. Weinberger
Tandy Chalmers
My (Myla) Bui
Osman Khan
Brent McFerran
Brennan Davis
Burcak Ertimur
Samantha Cross
Jun Kim
Chad Milewicz
Nadia Pomirleanu
Pavan Rao Chennamaneni
Vishal Bindroo
Mihai Niculescu
Vijaykumar Krishnan Palghat
Mark Ratchford
Jesse Itzkowitz
Julia Belyavsky
Henrik Hagtvedt
Demetra Andrews
Son K. Lam
Sung Ham
Fei Weisstein
Javier Monllor
Sharmin Attaran
Katherine Sredl
Kumar R. Sarangee
Northwestern U.
Ohio State U.
Oklahoma State U.
Oklahoma State U.
Pennsylvania State U.
Saint Louis U.
Stanford U.
Stevens Institute of Technology
Texas A&M U.
Texas Tech U.
Tokyo Institute of Technology
U. of Alabama
U. of Alberta
U. of Arizona
U. of Arizona
U. of Arizona
U. of Arizona
U. of Arkansas
U. of Bradford
U. of British Columbia-Vancouver
U. of California-Irvine
U. of California-Irvine
U. of California-Irvine
U. of California-Los Angeles
U. of Central Florida
U. of Central Florida
U. of Central Florida
U. of Central Florida
U. of Cincinnati
U. of Cincinnati
U. of Colorado-Boulder
U. of Florida
U. of Florida
U. of Georgia
U. of Houston
U. of Houston
U. of Houston
U. of Illinois
U. of Illinois-Chicago
U. of Illinois-Chicago
U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
London Business School
Vanderbilt U.
U. of Texas-El Paso
Minnesota State U.-Mankato
U. of Connecticut
U. of Toledo
U. of Pennsylvania
Elon U.
McGill U.
Pennsylvania State U.-Erie
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Grand Valley State U.
Shanghai U. of Finance and Economics
Auburn U.
U. of New Hampshire
Northwestern U.
Queen's U.-Canada
Loyola Marymount U.
U. of East London
U. of British Columbia-Okanagan
Baylor
Fairleigh Dickinson U.
Iowa State U.
Georgia Tech
U. of Southern Indiana
U. of Nevada-Las Vegas
U. of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Indiana U.-South Bend
New Mexico State U.
Northern Illinois U.
Vanderbilt U.
Yeshiva U.
U. of Delaware
Boston College
Florida State U.
U. of Georgia
Kent State U.
U. of Texas-Pan American
DePaul U.
Bryant U.
U. of Notre Dame
Santa Clara U.
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Name
Degree-Granting Institution
Hiring Institution
Stefan Worm
Francine Espinoza
Peggy Tseng
Eleanor McDonnell Feit
Thales Teixeira
Beibei Dong
Shrihari (Hari) Sridhar
Edward Nowlin
Mike Krush
Robert Harrison
Guang-Xin Xie
Rajesh Bhargave
Upender Subramanian
Xiaoyan Deng
Yanliu Huang
Scott Rick
U. of Kaiserslautern
U. of Maryland
U. of Maryland
U. of Michigan
U. of Michigan
U. of Missouri
U. of Missouri
U. of Nebraska-Lincoln
U. of Nebraska-Lincoln
U. of Nebraska-Lincoln
U. of Oregon
U. of Pennsylvania
U. of Pennsylvania
U. of Pennsylvania
U. of Pennsylvania
U. of Pennsylvania (Post-Doc) /
Carnegie Mellon (PhD)
U. of Rhode Island
U. of Rochester
U. of South Carolina
U. of South Florida
U. of South Florida
U. of Southern California
U. of Tennessee
U. of Texas-Austin
U. of Utah
U. of Utah
U. of Washington
U. of Western Ontario
Umea U.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (AACSB Bridge)
Washington State U.
York U.
York U.
HEC Paris
European School of Management and Tech.
U. of Delaware
The Modellers, LLC
Harvard Business School
Lehigh U.
Michigan State U.
Southern Illinois U.-Carbondale
North Dakota State U.
Western Michigan U.
U. of Massachusetts-Boston
U. of Texas-San Antonio
U. of Texas-Dallas
Ohio State U.
Chinese U. of Hong Kong
U. of Michigan
Adriana M. Boveda-Lambie
Sudhir Voleti
Roland Leak
Ivan Lapuka
Stefanie Boyer
Hae Eun Chun
Karen Hood
Leonardo Nicolao
Jenny Mish
Michelle Barnhart
Mark Staton
Remi Trudel
Kittipong Sophonthummapharn
Bige Saatcioglu
Matt Hettche
Berna Devezer
Andrew E. Wilson
Marie-Agnes Parmentier
Rochester Institute of Technology
Indian School of Business
North Carolina A&T State U.
Saint Louis U.
Bryant U.
Cornell U.
U. of Arkansas-Little Rock
Texas Christian U.
U. of Notre Dame
Oregon State U.
Skidmore College
Boston U.
Rajamangala U. of Tech. Suvarnabhumi
HEC Paris
Christopher Newport U.
Michigan State U.
St. Mary's College of California
HEC Montreal
DocSIG thanks Georgia State University for hosting the survey online.
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Summary Data
One hundred and fourteen (114) marketing doctoral students/candidates/newly-minted
PhDs took our survey. As in past years’surveys, the data analysis is based on marketing
faculty hires in the U.S. who provided salary and job search information (n = 77). The
sample size is lower than that of the 2008 sample (Total n = 119; U.S. n=94).
Salary Information*
Mean
$ 117,390
16,894
135,014
9-Month Salary
Summer
Total Salary
Median
$ 118,000
15,000
134,444
Mode
$ 130,000
15,000
130,000
Minimum
$ 85,000
0
90,000
Maximum
$ 165,000
35,222
193,722
*All salary information reported is rounded to the nearest USD.
Mean Salary Information
by Type of Hiring Institution
Type of Hiring
Institution*
Research-Private
Research-Public
Balanced-Private
Balanced-Public
Number of
Candidates
21
33
7
15
9-Month
Salary
$ 129,643
118,673
113,286
96,820
Summer Support
Total Salary
$ 23,541
18,673
9,571
4,962
$ 153,184
137,060
122,857
102,831
* As in past years’ surveys, a school is classified as a “research” school if it has teaching loads of 4 or
fewer courses per year. If a school does not meet these requirements, it is classified as a “balanced” school.
Mean Salary Information
by Whether Hiring Institution Has Ph.D. Program
Ph.D. Program at
Hiring Institution
Yes
No
Number of
Candidates
31
46
9-Month
Salary
$ 130,581
108,501
Summer Support
Total Salary
$ 22,948
12,629
$ 153,529
121,970
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Mean Salary Information
by Teaching Load
Academic
Year Teaching
Load*
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Number of
Candidates
2
13
20
19
12
9
1***
9-Month Salary
$ 130,000
134,577
125,625
111,407
106,167
98,367
n/a
Summer
Support**
$ 20,000
23,402
23,496
15,104
6,750
6,313
n/a
Total Salary
$ 150,000
157,979
149,121
126,511
112,917
105,225
n/a
*Respondents reported teaching loads during the next academic year (i.e., excluding summer).
** Please note that summer financial support is not necessarily for summer teaching.
*** Salaries are not reported to maintain confidentiality of the respondent/school.
Mean Salary Information
by Different Course Preparations
Academic
Year
Different
Preps*
1
2
3
4
Number of
Candidates
37
32
6
1**
9-Month Salary
$ 126,446
108,891
104,500
n/a
Summer
Support
$ 22,525
11,216
8,583
n/a
Total Salary
$ 148,971
120,846
113,083
n/a
*For example, 2 indicates he/she will teach 2 different courses during the next academic year.
** Salaries are not reported to maintain confidentiality of the respondent/school.
Other Financial Perks*
#
Reporting
Perk
Moving
71
Research
30
Stipend
#
Reporting
$ Amount
66
20
Mean
Median
Mode
Minimum
Maximum
$5,503
6,138
$5,000
5,000
$5,000
5,000
$1,500
750
$15,000
20,000
*Other perks mentioned: conference travel budget, start-up budget, technology budget, access to database,
software, house-hunting trip, relocation services, housing grant, parking, reduced teaching load, graduate
assistants, and summer teaching option.
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Dissertation Status and Total Salary*
Dissertation
Status
Proposal not defended
Proposal defended, no data collected
Proposal defended, some data
collected
Dissertation defended
4
22
47
5.2%
28.6%
61.0%
Mean Total
Salary
$ 105,500
130,974
137,925
4
5.2%
157,056
Frequency
Percentage
*Dissertation status at time of AMA interviews.
Years in Doctoral Program Completed
Before Going on the Market and Total Salary
Years in Doctoral Program Completed
Before Going on the Market
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
6
9
Frequency
Percentage
1
19
8
36
2
9
1
1
1.3%
24.7%
10.4%
46.8%
2.6%
11.7%
1.3%
1.3%
Mean Total
Salary*
n/a
$136,596
$122,333
$134,593
$146,750
$142,852
n/a
n/a
* Salaries are not reported individually to maintain confidentiality of these individuals/schools.
Main Research Area and Total Salary
Main Research Area
Consumer Behavior
Strategy
Modeling
Sales
Services
Other: 1 Channels, 1 Ethics, 1 Marketing and
Society, 1 Entrepreneurship, 1 CCT
Frequency
44
13
8
3
3
5
Percentage
57.1%
16.9%
10.4%
3.9%
3.9%
6.5%
Mean Total
Salary
$ 132,519
130,438
160,243
121,667
124,667
125,200
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Tenure Requirement at Hiring Institution
Requirement
Type/Level of Journal*
# “A” Publications**
# Overall Publications
Mean
2.68
2.96
5.67
Median
3
3
6
Mode
3
1
6
Minimum
1
1
1
Maximum
5
8
15
* 1= Only A journals count, 2 = B journals count, but only very little, 3 = B journals count, but there are
some expectations for A journals, 4 = B journals count and A journals are not expected, 5 = Conference
proceedings, as well as A and B journals count at my institution
** Consistent with last year’s survey, “A-level marketing journals” include JM, JMR, JCR, and MS.
Means of Tenure Requirements
by Type of Hiring Institution
Type of Hiring
Institution*
Research-Private
Research-Public
Balanced-Private
Balanced-Public
Type/Level of
Publication**
Needed
2.19
2.48
3.43
3.53
# of “A”
Publications***
for Tenure
3.61
3.00
2.17
1.00
Total # of
Publications
for Tenure
5.67
5.85
5.71
5.67
* As in past years’ surveys, a school is classified as a “research” school if it has teaching loads of 4 or
fewer courses per year. If a school does not meet these requirements, it is classified as a “balanced”
school.
** 1= Only A journals count, 2 = B journals count, but only very little, 3 = B journals count, but there are
some expectations for A journals, 4 = B journals count and A journals are not expected, 5 = Conference
proceedings, as well as A and B journals count at my institution
*** Consistent with last year’s survey, “A-level marketing journals” include JM, JMR, JCR, and MS.
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JOB SEARCH INFORMATION
The Process: Applications to Offers
Application letters sent out
AMA interviews completed
Campus visit offers
Campus visits accepted &
made
Job offers received
Mean
68.93
16.57
5.92
4.76
Median
70
16
6
4
Mode
60
15
6
3
Minimum
2
0
1
1
Maximum
200
35
18
15
2.47
2
2
1
7
Means for Job Search Information
By Type of Hiring Institution
Type of Hiring
Institution*
Research-Private
Research-Public
Balanced-Private
Balanced-Public
Application
Letters
Sent Out
66
72
65
72
AMA
Interviews
Completed
14
18
15
18
Campus
Visit
Offers
6
6
5
6
Campus
Visits
Accepted
5.33
4.69
4.29
4.40
Job Offers
2.52
2.37
2.14
2.73
* A school is classified as a “research” school if it has teaching loads of 4 or fewer courses per year. If a
school does not meet these requirements, it is classified as a “balanced” school.
Other Information About Respondents
Years in Doctoral
Program Completed
Before Going On
Market
Years Needed to
Finish Degree
Years of Industry
Experience
Mean
Median
Mode
Minimum
Maximum
3.90
4
4
2
9
4.79
5
5
3
9
4.35
3
0
0
20
Yes
No
Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage
Attended AMA Sheth
Doctoral Consortium
39
50.6%
38
49.4%
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Publication Record Information*
Publication type/status
Mean
Median
Mode
Minimum
Maximum
Conference
presentations/proceeding
5.04
4
2
1
18
A-level marketing journals**
Under 1st review
Past 1st review
Accepted/published
0.58
0.23
0.17
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
2
4
B or lower marketing journals
Under 1st review
Past 1st review
Accepted/published
0.24
0.43
0.95
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
9
*Publication record at time of AMA interviews.
** Consistent with last year’s survey, “A-level marketing journals” include JM, JMR, JCR, and MS.
Publication Record
Frequencies and Percentages of Journal Submissions/Acceptances*
Number of Manuscripts
Journal type/
Publication status
0
1
2
3 or more
Freq.
Perc.
Freq.
Perc.
Freq.
Perc.
Freq.
Perc.
A-level marketing
journals**
Under 1st review
Past 1st review
Accepted/published
47
61
64
61.0%
79.2%
83.1%
18
14
11
23.4%
18.2%
14.3%
7
2
1
9.1%
2.6%
1.3%
4
0
0
5.2%
0.0%
0.0%
B-or lower level
marketing journals
Under 1st review
Past 1st review
Accepted/published
62
56
39
80.5%
72.7%
50.6%
10
13
18
13.0%
16.9%
23.4%
4
6
13
5.2%
7.8%
16.9%
0
2
7
0.0%
2.6%
9.1%
*Publication record at time of AMA interviews.
** Consistent with last year’s survey, “A-level marketing journals” include JM, JMR, JCR, and MS.
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New Marketing Faculty Class of 2009: Contributions to Journals*
Publication Outlet
Academy of Educational Leadership Journal
Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth
Advances in International Marketing
American Journal of Public Health
Annual Review of Psychology
Empirical Studies of the Arts
Experimental Economics
Foundations and Trends in Marketing
Industrial Marketing Management
International Journal of Business Research
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
International Journal of Management and Marketing Research
International Journal of Operations and Production Research
International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management
International Marketing Review
International Perspectives on Social Entrepreneurship Research
Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education
Journal of Advertising
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Business and Economic Research
Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing
Journal of Business Ethics
Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing
Journal of Consumer Affairs
Journal of Consumer Behaviour
Journal of Consumer Psychology
Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of Consumer Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior
Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising
Journal of Entrepreneurship Education
Journal of Financial Services Marketing
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration
Journal of International Management Studies
Journal of International Marketing
Journal of Korean Society of Consumer Studies
Journal of Marketing
Journal of Marketing Education
Journal of Marketing Management
Journal of Marketing Research
Journal of Organizational Change Management
Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management
Journal of Product Innovation Management
Journal of Public Policy and Marketing
Total # of
Papers
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
1
2
1
3
1
1
1
1
5
4
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
3
1
1
4
1
2
1
1
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Publication Outlet
Journal of Retailing
Journal of Services Marketing
Journal of Social Psychology
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Journal of World Business
Marketing Letters
Marketing Science
Medical Science Monitor
MIT Sloan Management Review
Multivariate Behavioral Research
Neuron
Online Information Review
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Psychology & Marketing
Quantitative Marketing and Economics
Supply Chain Management
Training and Development
*Publication record at time of AMA interviews.
Congratulations to the new faculty class of 2009, from DocSIG.
Total # of
Papers
2
1
1
6
1
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1