Colleague, Mentor, and Leader.- DBA.- Coauthor.- Global Scholar.
Barry J. Babin is Chair and Max P. Watson, Jr. Professor of Business Research at Louisiana Tech University, and Co-Chair of the Board of Governors for the Academy of Marketing Science. He has authored leading texts in consumer behavior and marketing research and is coauthor of Multivariate Data Analysis (Hair et al., 2006/2010). Prof. Babin's research focuses on consumers’ realization of value. He has published previously in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Research, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, and the International Journal of Wine Business Research, among others.
Marko Sarstedt is chaired professor of Marketing at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany) and adjunct professor at Monash University Malaysia. His main research is in the application and advancement of structural equation modeling methods to further the understanding of consumer behavior and to improve marketing decision-making. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Organizational Research Methods, MIS Quarterly, and International Journal of Research in Marketing. Marko has co-edited several special issues of leading journals and co-authored several widely adopted textbooks, including “A Primer on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM)” (together with Joe F. Hair, G. Tomas M. Hult, and Christian M. Ringle).
This commemorative volume honors the contributions of Prof. Joseph F. Hair, Jr., who through his writings, leadership and mentoring has had a profound influence on marketing and other fields of business research. He is widely known for sidestepping mathematically complex ways of teaching statistical approaches with an eye toward making the tools accessible to the average behavioral researcher. Joe is also a bona fide researcher whose work has had a massive impact on marketing and business research in general. The book provides revealing insights on his works and acknowledges his role as an outstanding teacher and mentor who has shaped generations of researchers.