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Dr. Anshu Arora

Department Chairperson of Business, Associate Professor - Marketing

Area Editor – Marketing, International Journal of Emerging Markets

International Journal of Emerging Markets - Special Issue Editor - ‘Global Value Chains, International Trade, and Markets: The Role of Emerging Economies’

Series Editor: International Marketing and Management Research by Palgrave Macmillan

College of Business Administration, Savannah State University

Howard Jordan Building, Room # 236

Phone: 912 358 3387

Fax: 912 358 3888

E-mail: [email protected]

Biography

Anshu Arora, PhD, PMP is the Chair of Department of Business (Management, Marketing and Supporting Areas) and Associate Professor – Marketing in the College of Business Administration, Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia, USA. She is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI), USA and holds a Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management from Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB), UK. Dr. Arora was awarded Ph.D. in the area of Consumer Navigation Behavior in Hypermedia CMEs from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. She has been a Visiting Professor at ISC Paris Business School in France, University of California, Davis, and Thunderbird School of Global Management, Glendale, Arizona. She has more than a decade of industrial and academic experience. She has worked in companies like Hyundai Motors India Limited, Lufthansa German Airlines, and Siemens India.

Dr. Arora is the 2016 Chapter Chair for the Academy of International Business – Southeast (AIB-SE) conference, and was the 2015 conference chair for AIB-SE (http://www.aibse.org/2015-annual-conference/). She is the Area Editor of Marketing for the International Journal of Emerging Markets published by Emerald Publications, and she is the Editor for International Marketing and Management Research Journal Series published by Palgrave Macmillan, UK (http://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14845). Dr. Arora has published 35 research papers in national and international journals of repute, and has presented about 50 papers in national and international conferences. Her research interests and expertise include marketing analytics, social media strategy mix and social media measurement, stereotypical advertising polysemy, consumer behavior, ambient advertising, innovative experiential learning models in marketing and logistics / supply chain management, relational supply chain strategy relationships, and project management.

Teaching

Grants and Awards

  1. 2016 Faculty Research Associate, Georgia Tech Center for International Business Education and Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

    Arora, A. & Arora, A. S. (2016) “Culture’s Impact on Consumer Responses to Visual versus Verbal Anthropomorphism: The Influence of Uncertainty Avoidance and Ethnocentrism”, Award: $2,000

  2. 2016 Best X-Culture Instructor Award

    Selected as the Top 30 professors of X-Culture project out of a group of 136 instructors and co-instructors teaching at 112 universities in 42 countries whose students took part in the 2016 X-Culture competitionwww.x-culture.org

  3. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (2015 - 2016) GRANT

    InTeGrate program titled “Collaborate to Heighten Awareness, Rejuvenate, and Train: CHARTing a course to bring Environmental Justice to the coast” for $ 50,000 (Collaborator) July 2015 to December 2016

  4. NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE (NCIIA) (Currently known as VentureWell) Grant

    Course and Program Planning Grant # 11224-13 for $ 8,000 (Co- Principal Investigator) March 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015

  5. TITLE III GRANT from the US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION for $ 84, 662 (2012 - 2013); and $ 57,000 (2011 - 2012)

    Global Logistics and International Business Center and Program Planning Grant (Principal Investigator)

  6. FACULTY DEVELOPMENT MINI-GRANT AWARD, SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY (2013 and 2015)

    Arora, A. S. (2015) “Culture’s Impact on Strategic Purchasing and Sustainability: A Cross-Cultural Investigation”, Academic Affairs’ Faculty Mini-Grant, Award: $2,500

    Wu, Jun, and Arora, A. S. (2013) “Do Stereotypes Ignite Polysemy and Strengthen Consumer-Based Brand Equity”, Academic Affairs’ Faculty Mini-Grant, Award: $2,500

  7. 2010 ADVERTISING GRANT from ADVERTISING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (AEF)

    WINNER of AEF’s Visiting Professor Program (VPP) 2010: 14 proposals selected out of a pool of 64 Professor Applicants –"> Worked at “Young and Rubicam (Y&R)” advertising agency , New York under AEF Grant during July 12 to July 23, 2010; New York City, Ney York

Recent Research

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