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K. Sivakumar is affiliated with Lehigh University in the United States and has established a research profile primarily within the domain of Business, Management and Accounting. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Business and International Management, and Management Information Systems.

Their research contributions focus on topics such as Digital Marketing and Social Media, Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, Consumer Retail Behavior Studies, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Knowledge Management and Sharing, and Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Selected recent papers by K. Sivakumar include:

  • Social capacitance: Leveraging absorptive capacity in the age of social media (2020, Journal of Business Research)
  • The environmental turbulence concept in marketing: A look back and a look ahead (2023, Journal of Business Research)
  • Addressing customer misbehavior contagion in access-based services (2021, Journal of Services Marketing)
  • Manufacturer adoption of a unilateral pricing policy in a multi-channel setting to combat customer showrooming (2020, Journal of Business Research)
  • Challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in rural India: A mixed-method study on perception (2024, The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation)

K. Sivakumar frequently collaborates with several other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Himanshu Shekhar Srivastava
  • K.R. Jayasimha
  • Anshu Saxena Arora
  • Paul A. Pavlou
  • Lagnajita Chatterjee

Their work is published in a variety of academic journals, with multiple articles featured in the following venues:

  • Journal of Business Research
  • Plant Science Today
  • Journal of Services Marketing
  • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Journal of Consumer Marketing

Best Publications

  • National Culture and New Product Development: An Integrative Review

    Cheryl Nakata;K. Sivakumar

  • The Stampede Toward Hofstede's Framework: Avoiding the Sample Design Pit in Cross-Cultural Research

    K. Sivakumar;Cheryl Nakata

  • Online peer and editorial recommendations, trust, and choice in virtual markets

    Donnavieve Smith;Satya Menon;K. Sivakumar

  • Innovation generation in supply chain relationships: A conceptual model and research propositions

    Subroto Roy;K. Sivakumar;Ian F. Wilkinson

  • Institutional Sources of Boundary-Spanning Structures: the Establishment of Investor Relations Departments in the Fortune 500 Industrials

    Hayagreeva Rao;Kumar Sivakumar

  • International market entry mode strategies of manufacturing firms and service firms: A resource‐based perspective

    Ikechi Ekeledo;K. Sivakumar

  • Instituting the marketing concept in a multinational setting: The role of national culture

    Cheryl Nakata;K. Sivakumar

  • Foreign market entry mode choice of service firms: A contingency perspective

    Ikechi Ekeledo;K. Sivakumar

  • The relationship of learning and memory with organizational performance: The moderating role of turbulence

    Sangphet Hanvanich;K. Sivakumar;G. Tomas M. Hult

  • Fix It or Leave It? Customer Recovery from Self-service Technology Failures

    Zhen Zhu;Cheryl Nakata;K. Sivakumar;Dhruv Grewal

  • Quality Tier Competition: How Price Change Influences Brand Choice and Category Choice

    K. Sivakumar;S. P. Raj

  • Effect of Customer Participation on Service Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Participation Readiness

    Beibei Dong;K. Sivakumar;Kenneth R. Evans;Shaoming Zou

  • Flow and Internet shopping behavior: A conceptual model and research propositions

    Donnavieve N. Smith;K. Sivakumar

  • Distance factors and target market selection: the moderating effect of market potential

    Shavin Malhotra;K. Sivakumar;PengCheng Zhu

  • Customer participation in services: domain, scope, and boundaries

    Beibei Dong;K. Sivakumar

  • Self-service technology effectiveness: the role of design features and individual traits

    Zhen Zhu;Cheryl Nakata;K. Sivakumar;Dhruv Grewal

  • Implementation of industrial process innovations: factors, effects, and marketing implications

    Patricia W. Meyers;K. Sivakumar;Cheryl Nakata

  • Service Quality: The Impact of Frequency, Timing, Proximity, and Sequence of Failures and Delights

    K. Sivakumar;Mei Li;Beibei Dong

  • Globalization, Marketing Resources, and Performance: Evidence From China:

    Xueming Luo;K. Sivakumar;Sandra S. Liu

  • Emerging market conditions and their impact on first mover advantages: An integrative review

    Cheryl Nakata;K. Sivakumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheryl Nakata
Cheryl Nakata University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Dhruv Grewal
Dhruv Grewal Babson College
Kenneth R. Evans
Kenneth R. Evans Lamar University
Xueming Luo
Xueming Luo Temple University
Shaoming Zou
Shaoming Zou University of Missouri
Andreas Herrmann
Andreas Herrmann RWTH Aachen University
David Wilemon
David Wilemon Syracuse University
Paul A. Pavlou
Paul A. Pavlou University of Miami
G. Tomas M. Hult
G. Tomas M. Hult Michigan State University
Ian Wilkinson
Ian Wilkinson University of Sydney

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