About the Author
Brian Lukas is a member of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne; he is a Director of the Masters of Applied Commerce Program. Bryan holds several academic awards, including three Best Paper awards from the American Marketing Association and the University of Melbourne's Faculty's Individual Award for Good Teaching. He has published several academic texts and his research had appeared in many journals, including the Journal of Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and Journal of Business Research. Bryan is a consultant to both public and private institutions.
Joe F. Hair is Professor of Marketing, Cleverdon Chair of Business, and Director of the PhD degree program in the Mitchell College of Business, at the University of South Alabama. In 2018 and 2019 he was recognized by Clarivate Analytics as being in the top 1% globally of all Business and Economics professors. He was selected for the award based on citations of his research and scholarly accomplishments, which for his career exceed 230,000. Google Scholar ranks him #1 globally in the categories of Marketing and Multivariate Data Analysis. Joe formerly held the Copeland Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship at Louisiana State University. He has published more than 60 books, including market leaders Multivariate Data Analysis, 8th edition, Cengage Learning, U.K., 2019, which has been cited more than 130,000 times; Essentials of Marketing Research, 5th edition, McGraw Hill LLC, 2020; MKTG, 13th edition, Cengage, 2021, used at over 500 universities globally; A Primer in Partial Least Squared Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), 2nd edition, Sage, 2017, and Essentials of Business Research Methods, 4th edition, Taylor & Francis, 2020. In addition to publishing numerous referred manuscripts in academic journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business/Chicago, Journal of Advertising Research, and Journal of Retailing, he has presented executive education and management training programs for numerous companies, has been retained as consultant and expert witness for a wide variety of firms, and is frequently an invited speaker on research methods and multivariate analysis. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Society for Marketing Advances, and has served as president of the Academy of Marketing Sciences, the Society for Marketing Advances, the Southern Marketing Association, the Association for Healthcare Research, the Southwestern Marketing Association, and the American Institute for Decision Sciences, Southeast Section. Professor Hair was recognized by the Academy of Marketing Science with its Outstanding Marketing Teaching Excellence Award, and the Louisiana State University Entrepreneurship Institute under his leadership was recognized nationally by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 12 programs in the United States.
