PhD research and student profiles

Meet our Marketing and International Business PhD students.

Find out more about our PhD students, their Marketing and International Business research, and how to contact them by visiting their individual profile pages.

To make an enquiry, please email our PhD Programme Director at smib-phd@vuw.ac.nz, who will send information about applying for at PhD in our school. Please do not contact individual academics.

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Di Bao

Prosocial behaviour in Metaverse: its motivations and effects

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Erick Mmbando

Consumer reactions to lawfare strategies: Understanding how consumers interpret and respond to lawfare strategies

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Gayani Ranasinghe

International Strategic Alliance Portfolio Expansion and Configuration

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Hanwen Zhang

Foreign Expansion across Host-Country Economic Shocks & Different Levels of Host-Country Institutional Development

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Mafos Steve

Nation Branding and Foreign Direct Investment Attraction: A Stakeholder–Congruence Study

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Mehedi Hasan

Exploring the influence of personalization on consumer behavioural intention in the online environment: Privacy & personalization trade-offs.

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Nilufar Allayarova

Fractalised acculturation: Meanings of consumption conflicts within immigrant Muslim parent-child dyads

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Regina Eka Riantini

Consumer Resistance to Augmented Reality: Roles of Task Complexity, Technostress, and Co-Creation Experiences Across Platforms and Product Types in Retail

Saeideh Khajeh

Persuading Adolescents to Consume Health Food: The Effectiveness of Storytelling on Social Media

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Shanshan Liu

Environment institutional distance & environment strategy adaption by foreign MNEs in China, moderating role of organizational environmental citizenship

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Xiyuan (Aimmy) Jiang

How does post escapism acculturation in virtual social worlds affect consumers' consumption in real life

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Xuemeng Liu

How can Multinational Enterprises Survive and Thrive in a Deteriorating Global Business Environment? A Multilevel Analysis of De-globalization, Global Sourcing