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A. V. MUTHUKRISHNAN
Acting Head and Professor
Email:mkmuthu@ust.hk

PhD University of Florida, Marketing
PhD Indian Institute of Technology, Industrial Psychology
MA University of Madras, India, Personnel Management 
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2001 - 09)
  • Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1995 - 01)
  • Assistant Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University (1993 - 95)


RESEARCH INTEREST:

Consumer and managerial judgment and decision making.


HONORS:

Winner of the American Marketing Association's John Howard Award for the Best Dissertation in Marketing, 1993.

Honorable Mention in the Robert Ferber Award competition of the Journal of Consumer Research for the best article based on a dissertation, 1996.

Winner of the Best-in-Track Paper Award in the Research Methodology Track of Academy of Marketing Sciences Conference, 1996.


PUBLICATIONS:

"Ambiguity Aversion and the Preference for Established Brands," Management Science, forthcoming (co-authored with Luc Wathieu and Alison Jing Xu).

“Just Give Me Another Chance: The Strategies for Brand Recovery from a Bad First Impression,” Journal of Marketing Research, 2007, XLIV (May), 334-345 (co-authored with Amitava Chattopadhyay)

“Superfluous Choices and Persistence of Preferences,” Journal of Consumer Research, 2007, 33(4), 454-460 (co-authored with Luc Wathieu.

"Asymmetric Effects of Promotion Retracting," Journal of Consumer Research, 2004, 31(3), 652-657 (co-authored with L. Wathieu and B. Bronnenberg).

"Consumer Sequential Search: Not Enough or Too Much?" Marketing Science, 2003, Vol. 22 (4), 503-519  (co-authored with Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport and Alison Lo).

"Consumer Control and Empowerment: A Primer," Marketing Letters (special issue on Berkeley Choice Symposium), 2002, Vol. 13 (3), 297-305 (co-authored with Luc Wathieu, Lyle Brenner, Ziv Carmon, Amitava Chattopadhyay, Aimee Drolet, John Gourville, Nathan Novemsky, Rebecca Ratner, Klaus Wertenbroch and George Wu).

"Search, Alignment, and Judgment Revision: Implications for Brand Positioning," Journal of Marketing Research, 2002, Vol. 39, 18-30 (co-authored with Michel T. Pham).

"Persistent Preferences for Product Attributes: The Effects of Initial Choice Context and Uninformative Experience," Journal of Consumer Research, 2001, Vol. 28, 89-104 (co-authored with Frank R. Kardes).

"Does Greater Amount of Information Always Bolster Attitudinal Resistance?" Marketing Letters, 2001, Vol. 12, 131-144 (co-authored with Michel T. Pham and Amitabh Mungale).

"Category Structure, Recall, and Choice," International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2001, Vol. 18, 191-202 (co-authored with Prakash Nedungadi and Amitava Chattopadhyay).

"The Piecemeal Approach to Comparative Advertising," Marketing Letters, 2001, Vol. 12, 1 63-73 (co-authored with Luk Warlop and Joseph W. Alba).

"Comparison Opportunity and Judgment Revision," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1999, Vol. 80, 228-251 (co-authored with Michel T. Pham and Amitabh Mungale).

"Contextual Effects on the Revision of Evaluative Judgments," Journal of Consumer Research, 1999, Vol. 26, 70-84 (co-authored with S. Ramaswami).

"Decision Ambiguity and Incumbent Brand Advantage," Journal of Consumer Research, 1995, Vol. 22, 98-109.

"The Role of Product Knowledge in the Evaluation of Brand Extensions," Advances in Consumer Research, 1991, Vol. 18, 407-413 (co-authored with Barton A. Weitz).


BOOK CHAPTER:

“On the Conditions under which Experience and Motivation Accentuate Bias in Intuitive Judgment,” in T. Betsch and S. Haberstroch (eds.) The Routines of Decision-Making, Lawrence-Erlbaum, 139-156, 2005 (co-authored with Frank Kardes and Vladimir Pashkevich).


WORK IN PROGRESS:

“A New Perspective of Persistent Preferences – An Integrated Review and Conceptual Framework”.

“An Investigation of the Role of Choice Conflict in the Status-quo Preference”.

“Gifts versus Coupons: The Differential Short Term and the Long term Effects of the Two Promotional tools,” (with “Alison” Jing Xu).

“Promotion-induced Choice Deferral,” (with Luc Wathieu).

“Price Salience and Reduced Openness to New Benefits,” (with Luc Wathieu).

“Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decision Making: The Biases in Dynamic Decision Making with Feedback”.

“Can the Ellsberg Notion of Ambiguity Explain Preference for “Dominated” Name Brands?” (with Soo-Hong Chew and Luc Wathieu).


REVIEWING FOR:

Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Marketing Letters, Journal of Business Research.