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Business and Management
Canada
2026
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Business and Management
USA
2023

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Business and Management

D-Index
113
Citations
64331
World Ranking
24
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award

Overview

V Kumar is affiliated with Brock University in Canada and specializes primarily in Marketing, Business, Management and Operations. Their research portfolio consists of over 350 publications within this broad field, with a significant focus on Marketing Strategy and Marketing Management, which accounts for over 150 of these works. Other notable subfields in their research include Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, International Business, and General Economics, Econometrics and Corporate Finance.

Their work extensively covers themes related to Marketing, Retailing, International Business and Customer Relationship Management, Corporate Finance and Governance, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Family Business Performance and Succession, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Business Strategy and Innovation, as well as cross-national diffusion.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by V Kumar are:

  • CSR 'sustainability' practices and firm performance in an emerging economy (2020, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation (2021, Journal of World Business)
  • A Blessing and a Curse: Institutional Embeddedness of Longstanding MNE Subsidiaries in Emerging Markets (2022, Journal of Management Studies)
  • Internationalization through foreign listing: A review and future research agenda (2021, Journal of World Business)
  • A knowledge-based view of emerging market firm internationalization: the case of the Indian IT industry (2022, Journal of Knowledge Management)

The frequent coauthors collaborating with V Kumar include Anish Purkayastha, Deepak Sardana, Narain Gupta, Ankit Surana, and Meena Chavan. Their joint efforts reflect repeated partnerships across multiple publications.

Publication venues where V Kumar's work appears regularly include the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Production and Operations Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, HBR, CMR and Sloan Management Review.

Best Publications

  • Marketing Research

    David Aaker;V. Kumar;George S. Day;David Luck

  • On the Profitability of Long-Life Customers in a Noncontractual Setting: An Empirical Investigation and Implications for Marketing

    Werner J. Reinartz;V. Kumar

  • Customer Experience Management in Retailing: An Organizing Framework

    Dhruv Grewal;Michael Levy;V. Kumar

  • Customer engagement: the construct, antecedents, and consequences

    Anita Pansari;Vikas Kumar

  • Undervalued or Overvalued Customers: Capturing Total Customer Engagement Value:

    V. Kumar;Lerzan Aksoy;Bas Donkers;Rajkumar Venkatesan

  • The Impact of Customer Relationship Characteristics on Profitable Lifetime Duration

    Werner J. Reinartz;V. Kumar

  • Measuring Marketing Productivity: Current Knowledge and Future Directions:

    Roland T. Rust;Tim Ambler;Gregory S. Carpenter;V. Kumar

  • A CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE FRAMEWORK FOR CUSTOMER SELECTION AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION STRATEGY

    Rajkumar Venkatesan;V. Kumar

  • Competitive Advantage through Engagement

    V. Kumar;Anita Pansari

  • Building and sustaining profitable customer loyalty for the 21st century

    V. Kumar;Denish Shah

  • Balancing Acquisition and Retention Resources to Maximize Customer Profitability

    Werner Reinartz;Jacquelyn S. Thomas;V. Kumar

  • Modeling Customer Lifetime Value

    Sunil Gupta;Dominique M. Hanssens;Bruce G.S. Hardie;Wiliam Kahn

  • Interaction Orientation and Firm Performance

    Girish Ramani;V. Kumar

  • Who are the multichannel shoppers and how do they perform?: Correlates of multichannel shopping behavior

    V. Kumar;Rajkumar Venkatesan

  • Creating Enduring Customer Value

    V. Kumar;Werner Reinartz

  • Is Market Orientation a Source of Sustainable Competitive Advantage or Simply the Cost of Competing

    V. Kumar;Eli Jones;Rajkumar Venkatesan;Robert P. Leone

  • Revisiting the Satisfaction-Loyalty Relationship: Empirical Generalizations and Directions for Future Research

    V. Kumar;Ilaria Dalla Pozza;Jaishankar Ganesh

  • Putting one-to-one marketing to work: Personalization, customization, and choice

    Neeraj Arora;Xavier Dreze;Anindya Ghose;James D. Hess

  • Meckel's diverticulum : a systematic review

    Jayesh Sagar;Vikas Kumar;D K Shah

  • Blockchain technology and the circular economy: Implications for sustainability and social responsibility

    Arvind Upadhyay;Sumona Mukhuty;Vikas Kumar;Yigit Kazancoglu

  • Essentials of Marketing Research

    V. Kumar;David A. Aaker;George S. Day

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes
Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes University of Derby
Marta Schuhmacher
Marta Schuhmacher Rovira i Virgili University
Sandip B. Bharate
Sandip B. Bharate Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Felix T.S. Chan
Felix T.S. Chan Macau University of Science and Technology
Ajai S. Gaur
Ajai S. Gaur Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
José L. Domingo
José L. Domingo Rovira i Virgili University
Sumit K. Kundu
Sumit K. Kundu Florida International University
Martí Nadal
Martí Nadal Rovira i Virgili University
Manoj Kumar Tiwari
Manoj Kumar Tiwari Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Torben Pedersen
Torben Pedersen Copenhagen Business School

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