Shankar Ganesan
Office Depot Professor of Marketing
- Ph.D. in Marketing, University of Florida, 1991
Teaching Interests
- Undergraduate
MKTG 454 - Management of Sales Operations - MBA
MKTG 542 - Customer Relationship Management
MKTG 572 - Marketing Research for Managers - Doctoral
MKTG 696C - Marketing Management and Strategy
MKTG 673 – Research Methods in Marketing - Executive MBA
Customer Value Proposition Module
Research Interests
- Marketing - Finance interface
- Inter-organizational relationships
- Buyer-seller negotiations
- Service failure and recovery
- New product innovation
- Technology management
Publications and Working Papers
Ganesan, Shankar, Steven P. Brown, Babu L. John, and Dixon H. Ho, “Buffering and Amplifying Effects of Commitment in Business-to-Business Relationships,” Journal of Marketing Research, forthcoming
Chen, Yubo, Shankar Ganesan, and Yong Liu, “Does a Firm’s Product Recall Strategy Affects its Financial Value? An Examination of Strategic Alternatives During Product-harm Crises,” Journal of Marketing, forthcoming
Ganesan, Shankar, Morris George, Sandy Jap, Robert W. Palmatier, and Barton Weitz, “Supply Chain Management and Retailer Performance: Emerging Trends, Issues, and Implications for Research and Practice,” Journal of Retailing, forthcoming
Rindfleisch, Aric, Alan J. Malter, Shankar Ganesan, and Christine Moorman (2008), “Cross-sectional Versus longitudinal Survey Research: Concepts, Findings, and Guidelines,” Journal of Marketing Research, 45 (3), 261-279 (Lead Article)
Ambrose, Maureen, Ron Hess, and Shankar Ganesan (2007), “The Relationship between Justice and Attitudes: An Examination of Justice Effects on Event and System-related Attitudes,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 103(1), 21-36.
Hess, Ron, Shankar Ganesan, and Noreen Klein (2007), “Interactional Service Failures in a Pseudorelationship: The Role of Organizational and Employee Attributions,” Journal of Retailing, 83 (1), 79-87 (Special Issue: Services Excellence)
Ganesan, Shankar, Alan J. Malter, and Aric Rindfleisch (2005), “Does Distance Still Matter? Geographic Proximity and New Product Development,” Journal of Marketing, 69 (October), 44-60.
Webster, Fredrick, Alan Malter, and Shankar Ganesan (2005), “The Decline and Dispersion of Marketing Competence,” MIT Sloan Management Review, 46 (Summer), 35-43.
Professional Associations
- American Marketing Association
- Academy of Management
- Beta Gamma Sigma
Awards
- AMA Sheth Consortium Faculty Fellow (2009 – upcoming)
- Craig and Lauri Forte Faculty Excellence Award (2008)
- Office Depot Professorship (2008)
- AMA Sheth Consortium Faculty Fellow (2008)
- Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Retailing (2007)
- AMA’s Louis W. Stern Award for the Best Article on Marketing Channels and Distribution (2007)
- McCoy-Rogers Professorship (2007)
- Eller College BPA Student Council’s Faculty Appreciation Award (2006)
- McCoy-Rogers Faculty Fellowship (2005)
- Robert D. Buzzell Marketing Science Institute Best Paper Award (2005)
- Faculty Fellow, AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2005)




