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Overview

John B. Ford is affiliated with Old Dominion University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within business and social sciences, focusing primarily on marketing and consumer behavior.

Their work covers main fields such as Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences. Within these, subfields of study include Sociology and Political Science, Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Key topics in Ford's research involve Digital Marketing and Social Media, Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Management and Marketing Education, Technology Adoption and User Behaviour, and Environmental Sustainability in Business.

Ford has contributed to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Advertising Research
  • Journal of Business Research
  • Journal of Consumer Behaviour
  • Medical Physics
  • International Journal of Research in Marketing

Recent papers published by Ford include:

  • "AI advertising: An overview and guidelines," 2023, Journal of Business Research
  • "What Do We Know About Creativity?", 2020, Journal of Advertising Research
  • "Forty years of cross-cultural advertising research in the International Journal of Advertising: a bibliometric analysis," 2022, International Journal of Advertising

Other notable papers in which Ford is not the primary author but are relevant within their collaboration network include "Collecting samples from online services: How to use screeners to improve data quality," 2021, International Journal of Research in Marketing, and "What draws voters to brandidates and why? - Political orientation, personal satisfaction, and societal values on presidential candidates' brand personality," 2022, Journal of Product & Brand Management.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ford reflect ongoing research partnerships and include:

  • Douglas West
  • Essam Ibrahim
  • Matteo Montecchi
  • Varsha Jain
  • Kristina Harrison

Ford has also authored a book titled Strategic Marketing, published in 2022 by Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • Importance‐performance analysis as a strategic tool for service marketers: the case of service quality perceptions of business students in New Zealand and the USA

    John B. Ford;Mathew Joseph;Beatriz Joseph

  • Perceptual determinants of nonprofit giving behavior

    Adrian Sargeant;John B. Ford;Douglas C. West

  • Strategic Marketing: Creating Competitive Advantage

    Douglas C. West;John B. Ford;Essam Ibrahim

  • The service recovery paradox: justifiable theory or smoldering myth?

    Vincent P. Magnini;John B. Ford;Edward P. Markowski;Earl D. Honeycutt

  • Charitable organizations' storytelling influence on donors' emotions and intentions

    Altaf Merchant;John B. Ford;Adrian Sargeant

  • Gender Role Portrayals in Japanese Advertising: A Magazine Content Analysis

    John B. Ford;Patricia Kramer Voli;Earl D. Honeycutt;Susan L. Casey

  • Charity Brand Personality: The Relationship With Giving Behavior

    Adrian Sargeant;John B. Ford;Jane Hudson

  • Measuring nonprofit marketing strategy performance: the case of museum stores

    Sandra Mottner;John B. Ford

  • Contemporary women′s evaluation of female role portrayals in advertising

    John B. Ford;Michael S. LaTour;William J. Lundstrom

  • Differing reactions to female role portrayals in advertising

    John B. Ford;Michael S. LaTour

  • Collecting Samples from Online Services: How to Use Screeners to Improve Data Quality

    Aaron D. Arndt;John B. Ford;Barry J. Babin;Vinh Luong

  • Service failure recovery in China

    Vincent P. Magnini;John B. Ford

  • Are Exporting Firms Modifying Their Product, Pricing and Promotion Policies?

    Bruce Seifert;John Ford

  • Amazon's Mechanical Turk: A Comment

    John B. Ford

  • How Strong is the Pull of the Past?: Measuring Personal Nostalgia Evoked by Advertising

    Altaf Merchant;Kathryn A. LaTour;John B. Ford;Michael S. LaTour

  • Perception of marital roles in purchase decision processes: A cross-cultural study

    John B. Ford;Michael S. LaTour;Tony L. Henthorne

  • Does perception matter?: an empirical analysis of donor behaviour

    Adrian Sargeant;Douglas C. West;John B. Ford

  • Nostalgia and giving to charity: a conceptual framework for discussion and research

    Altaf Merchant;John Ford

  • Nostalgia Drives Donations The Power of Charitable Appeals Based on Emotions and Intentions

    John B. Ford;Altaf Merchant

  • Advertising Agency Philosophies and Employee Risk Taking

    Douglas West;John Ford

  • The power of brands

    Adrian Sargeant;J.B. Ford

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael S. LaTour
Michael S. LaTour University of Nevada, Las Vegas
John F. Tanner
John F. Tanner Old Dominion University

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