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Paul Patterson

Paul Patterson 

BBus in Marketing and Economics, University of Technology Sydney

MCom in Marketing and Management, UNSW

PhD, University of Wollongong, Awarded University Medal

Professor, Coordinator of School Seminar Series and Marketing in Asia Speaker Series

Phone:

+61 2 9385 1105 

Fax:

+61 2 9663 1985 

Room:

3034 

Address:

Quadrangle building
Prior to joining the teaching profession, Paul held management and marketing positions in the banking, telecommunications, marketing research and public sectors, and later with an international management consultancy firm. He has taught or been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Wollongong, Sydney (Graduate School of Management), Michigan State University in the USA, and more recently Assumption University (ABAC) Graduate School, Mahidol, Chiang Maiand Thammasat Universities in Thailand and Fudan University in China. He is Adjunct Professor at Thammasat University.

 

His research, teaching and consulting interests revolve around marketing in service industries, more specifically modeling customer satisfaction and service quality, relationship marketing, consumer loyalty & switching barriers in service contexts, complaining behaviour and the internationalisation of service firms. His more recent research is cross-cultural in nature - in particular examining customer rage spectrum emotions and behaviours in failed service encounters across East-West cultures.

 

Paul's research has appeared in the Journal of Retailing, International Journal for Research in Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Advances in Services Marketing and Management, Journal of Consumer Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction & Complaining Behaviour, International Journal of Service Industry Management, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, Psychology & Marketing, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Professional Services Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Global Marketing and others. He is on the editorial boards of European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Education and International Journal of Service Industry Management.

Publications

Books

 

  • Services Marketing: An Asia-Pacific and Australian Perspective 5th ed., (with C. H. Lovelock and J. Wirtz), Prentice Hall, 2010 (In Press)

 

Case studies

 

  • 'Starbucks Failure in Australia', in Lovelock, C., P. Patterson and J. Wirtz, Services Marketing: An Asia-Pacific & Australian Perspective, (2010), 5th ed., Pearson Education, Australia (In Press)
  • 'Customer Rage: Triggers, Tipping Points and Take-outs', (with J. McColl-Kennedy, A. Smith and Z. Lu), Harvard Business School case study (2010)
  • 'The Cape House, Bangkok' in Lovelock, C., P. Patterson and R. Walker, Services Marketing: An Asia-Pacific & Australian Perspective, (2007), 4th ed., Pearson Education, Australia
  • 'Air Asia' in Lovelock, C., P. Patterson and R. Walker, Services Marketing: An Asia-Pacific & Australian Perspective, (2007), 4th ed., Pearson Education, Australia (with K. Kueh)
  • 'Telekomsel: to mend the leaky bucket' in Lovelock, C., P. Patterson and R. Walker, Services Marketing: An Asia-Pacific & Australian Perspective, (2007), 4th ed., Pearson Education, Australia (with Handi Irawan Djuwadi)
  • 'Qantas Airlines: a customer's perceptions of service recovery efforts' in Lovelock, C., P. Patterson and R. Walker, Services Marketing: An Asia-Pacific & Australian Perspective, (2004), 3rd ed., Pearson Education, Australia
  • 'Bringing a client focus to Austrade, Bangkok: a change management case study' in Lovelock, C., P. Patterson and R. Walker, Services Marketing: An Asia-Pacific & Australian Perspective, (2004), 3rd ed., Pearson Education, Australia

 

Journal articles

 

  • 'Customer Rage Back-Story: Linking Needs-Based Cognitive Appraisal to Service Failure Type', Journal of Retailing,  now available online http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jretai.2012.06.001 2012.  (with J. Surachartkuntonkum & J. Mc Coll-Kennedy). [A*]
  • 'Achieving Sales-Service Ambidexterity in Retail Banking: The Role of Retail Branch Context', Journal of Service Research, now available online: http://jsr.sagepub.com. (with T. Yu and K. de Ruyter). [A]
  • 'An Extended Service Recovery Model: The Moderating Impact of Temporal Sequence of Events', Journal of Services Marketing, ,  Forthcoming  2012 (with K. Prasongsukarn) [B]
  • 'Customer choice of self-service technology: The roles of situational influences and past experience', Journal of Service Management, 21 (1), 2012, 54-78 (with C.Wang and J. Harris). [B]
  • 'Gazi and the Shock Absorber Market in Thailand', Asian Case Research Journal, Forthcoming 2012, (with R. Koojaroenpaisan) [C]
  • 'Customer-oriented behaviour of front-line service employees: the need to be both willing and able', Australasian Marketing Journal, in Press, 2010 (with N. Pimpakorn)
  • 'Fitness by Fit: A Regulatory Fit perspective of Rewards Preference in a Health Club Loyalty Program', Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, in Press, 2010 ( with A. Daryanto, K de Ruyter, M. Wetzels)
  • 'How the Local competition Beat a Global Brand – the Failure of Starbucks in Australia', Australasian Marketing Journal, 18 (1), 2010, 41-47 (with M. Uncles & J. Scott)
  • 'Customer Rage: Triggers, Tipping Points and Take-outs', California Management Review, 52 (10 (Fall), 2009, 6-28 (with J. McColl-Kennedy, A. Smith and Z Lu). [Lead article]
  • 'Customer Rage Episodes: Emotions, Expressions and Behaviors', Journal of Retailing, 85 (2), 2009, 222-237 (with J. McColl-Kennedy, A. Smith & M. Brady)
  • 'Client Perceived Performance & Value in Professional B2B Services – an International Perspective', Journal of International Business Studies, 2009, (with V. La & C. Styles)
  • 'A relational model of export performance', Journal of International Business Studies, 39, 2008, 880-900 (with C. Styles & F. Ahmed)
  • 'The impact of cultural orientation on customer perceptions of post-recovery service satisfaction', International Journal of Research in Marketing, 23, 2006, 263-277 (with E. Cowley & K. Prasongsukarn)
  • 'Exporting Services to South East Asia: Lessons from Australian Knowledge-based Service Exporters', Journal of International Marketing, Executive Insights, 13 (4), 2005, 104-128 (with V. La & C. Styles)
  • ‘Relational Competency's Role in Southeast Asia Business Partnerships', Journal of Business Research, 58, 2, 2005, 173-184 (with M.C. Phan & C. Styles)
  • ‘The Impact of Culture on Consumers' Perceptions of Service Recovery Efforts', Journal of Retailing, 80, 3, 2004, 196-206 (with A. Mattila)
  • 'A cross-cultural study of switching barriers and propensity to stay with service providers', (2003), Journal of Retailing, Vol 79/2, pp 107 – 120 (with T. Smith)
  • 'A Contingency Approach to Modeling Satisfaction with Management Consulting Services', Journal of Service Research, (2000), 3 (2), 138-153

Research interests

  • Modeling relationship commitment in international business partnerships: Australia exporters and their partners (import agents, distributors, joint venture partners) in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
  • Modeling customer perceptions of serivce recovery across east-west cultures (Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, USA)
  • Longitudinal study of attitudes to self-service technology in a retail context
  • Study of the drivers of ambidexterity (sales vs customer service) in retail banking

Research grants

  • 2008: 'Ambidexterity - The Simultaneous Pursuit of Sales and Service Goals in a Retail Banking Context' ASB Goldstar Award $30,000
  • 2006-2008: 'Customer Rage Spectrum Emotions in Service Failure Encounters: Linking Experience, Expression, Behaviour and Organisational Responses' (with J. McColl-Kennedy, University of Queensland, and A.K. Smith, George Washington University, USA). 'Shopping Mad', ragtrader, 23 March 2007, ARC Discovery Grant $240,000
  • 2002: 'The Determinants of Export Performance Across Service Types' (with C. Styles) ARC Discovery Grant $85,000
  • 2001: Grant to assess the key factors that lead to success or failure of SME Australian service exporters to SE Asia Australian Trade Commission $42,000
  • 1998: 'A Dyadic Investigation of the Relationship Processes Leading to Successful Market Entry in East Asian Markets' (with C. Styles) ARC SPIRT Grant, $268,000 and Australian Trade Commission $134,000

 

Awards and distinctions

 

  • Australian School of Business Award for Outstanding Research Supervision (2009)
  • Best Paper (Services Marketing Track), Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference for the paper 'Seeing Red: Customer Rage Emotions, Expressions and Behaviours) (with J. McColl-Kennedy) (2008)
  • 'Top 25 Hottest Article' in IJRM since 2000 (with E. Cowley & K. Prasongsukarn) for 'The impact of cultural orientation on customer perceptions of post-recovery service satisfaction', International Journal of Research in Marketing, 23, 263-277
  • Davidson Award - Honourable Mention (as one of the three best papers) in the Journal of Retailing for the paper 'The Impact of Culture on consumers' Perceptions of Service Recovery Efforts' (co-authored with A. Matills of Penn State University) (2005)
  • Best Paper Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference for the paper 'Determinants of Export Performance Across Service Types: A Conceptual Model' ( with V. La and C. Styles) (2001)

 

Board memberships

 

Editorial

  • European Journal of Marketing
  • Journal of Service Research
  • Journal of Business Research
  • Advances in International Marketing
  • Australasian Marketing Journal
  • Marketing Bulletin
  • Journal of Service Management
  • Asian Marketing Journal
  • Occasional reviewer (2004 - present) for Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Services Marketing

 

Professional board memberships

  • American Marketing Association
  • Australian Marketing Institute
  • Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC)

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