MKTG5, 5th Edition | AU/NZ

Joseph Hair is a Distinguished Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Ph.D. in Business Administration Program at the University of South Alabama. Immediately prior to joining the University of South Alabama, Joe was the Founder and Director of the Kennesaw State University DBA program. He previously held the Alvin C. Copeland Endowed Chair of Franchising and was the Director of the Entrepreneurship Institute at Louisiana State University. Hair also held the Phil B. Hardin Chair of Marketing at the University of Mississippi. He has taught graduate and undergraduate marketing, sales management and marketing research courses. Hair has authored more than 40 books and over 80 articles in scholarly journals. He has also participated on many university committees and chaired numerous departmental task forces. He serves on the editorial review boards of several journals. He is a member of the Academy of Marketing Science, the American Marketing Association, the Society for Marketing Advances, and the Association for Marketing and Healthcare Research. He was selected as the 2011 AMS CUTCO/VECTOR Distinguished Marketing Educator, the 2007 Innovative Marketer of the Year by the Marketing Management Association and the 2004 recipient of the Academy of Marketing Science Excellence in Teaching Award. Hair holds a bachelor's degree in economics, a master's degree in marketing, and a doctorate in marketing, all from the University of Florida. He also serves as a marketing consultant to businesses in a variety of industries ranging from food and retail to financial services, health care, electronics, and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior.

Carl McDaniel served as a professor emeritus at the University of Texas–Arlington. He chaired the marketing department at UTA for 32 years. Throughout his more than forty-year career, he received several awards for outstanding teaching. McDaniel worked as a district sales manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and served as a board member of the North Texas Higher Education Authority, a billion-dollar financial institution. McDaniel wrote and coauthored over 90 textbooks in marketing and business, in addition to his contributions to MKTG. His research appeared in The Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and the California Management Review. McDaniel was a member of the American Marketing Association. Along with his academic experience, McDaniel co-owned a marketing research firm and served as a senior consultant to the International Trade Centre (ITC) in Geneva, Switzerland, whose mission is to help developing nations increase their exports. McDaniel held a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas and a master's degree and doctorate from Arizona State University.

Professor Jane Summers, formerly the Director of USQ’s MBA Program. She has over 20 years’ tertiary teaching experience, in Marketing, Applied Business Research and Ethics and Marketing Management. A/Prof Summers’ research interests are in Sport Marketing and Consumer Behaviour. She is a Member of the American Sport Marketing Association, Australian and New Zealand Sport Marketing Association, The Association for Consumer Research and The American Marketing Association, and is Chair of the Board of Southern Queensland Country Tourism.

Dr Michael Gardiner has over 20 years’ experience teaching Introduction to Marketing, Services Marketing, Global Marketing and Applied Business research. Research areas are Market and Social Research, SME, and Local Government Marketing, as well as Bitcoin and Blockchain. Michael is a Certified Professional Marketer (CPM), a Qualified Professional Market Researcher (QPMR), a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute, Member of the Australian Market and Social Research Society and a Justice of the Peace. Michael teaches both fully online and face-to-face. He was heavily involved in restructuring the undergraduate marketing program at USQ.