O C Ferrell Author

William M. Pride is Professor of Marketing, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, USA. G. Tomas M. Hult is the Eli Broad Professor of Marketing and International Business and Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (MSU-CIBER) in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, USA. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Academy of International Business, a worldwide academic organization with more than 3,000 members in some 80 countries. MSU-CIBER is the developer of globalEDGE, the world-leading “international business resource” on the web. Tomas Hult is a dual citizen of Sweden and the USA. Dr. Hult’s specialty areas are in international marketing, global strategy, and supply chain management. Professor Hult is the 75th most-cited scientist in economics and business" in the world (for 1997-2007), per the ranking provided by Thomson Reuters. He has published more than 100 articles in journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, and Decision Sciences, among others. Dr. Hult is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He is Editor of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and Associate Editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He has previously served as Associate Editor of Journal of International Business Studies and Decision Sciences, and currently serves on the review boards of Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal, among others." O. C. Ferrell is the James T. Pursell Sr. Eminent Scholar Chair in Ethics and director of the Center for Ethical Organizational Cultures in the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business at Auburn University. He served as the Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Belmont University and University Distinguished Professor of Marketing in the Anderson School of Management at University of New Mexico. He also taught at University of Wyoming, Colorado State University, University of Memphis, Texas A&M University, Illinois State University and Southern Illinois University. Dr. Ferrell received his Ph.D. in marketing from Louisiana State University. He is a past president of the Academic Council of the American Marketing Association and previously chaired the American Marketing Association Ethics Committee that developed the AMA Code of Ethics and the AMA Code of Ethics for Marketing on the Internet. In addition, Dr. Ferrell is past president of the Academy of Marketing Science, where he also served as vice president of publications. He is a member of the Academy of Marketing Science Board of Governors and is a Society of Marketing Advances and Southwestern Marketing Association Fellow and an Academy of Marketing Science Distinguished Fellow. Dr. Ferrell has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Macromarketing Society, an Southeast Doctoral Consortium award for service to doctoral students as well as the Harold Berkman Lifetime Service Award and the Cutco Vector Distinguished Marketing Educator Award -- both from the Academy of Marketing Science. Dr. Ferrell has co-authored 20 books and more than 100 articles and papers in journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.