Pankaj Aggarwal

Professor of Marketing, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough at Rotman School of Management

Schools

  • Rotman School of Management

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Biography

Rotman School of Management

Bio

Pankaj Aggarwal is a Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management at University of Toronto-Scarborough, with a cross-appointment to the Marketing area at Rotman. He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and former Associate Chair of the Department of Management at the University of Toronto-Scarborough. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research and Psychological Science . His research uses the metaphor of brands-as-people, and examines consumer behaviour in the context of consumer-brand relationships, including anthropomorphism. He teaches Integrated Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategy and Principles of Marketing, and a PhD seminar, Judgment and Decision Making.

Academic Positions

2015 onwards  Professor; University of Toronto

2015-2017  Vice-Chair, Executive Committee, Grad Dept. of Management; University of Toronto

2009-2011  Associate Chair; Department of Management, UTSC

2007-2015  Associate Professor; University of Toronto

2007-2008  Visiting Associate Professor; UCLA

2001-2007  Assistant Professor; University of Toronto

Honors and Awards

2015-2017  Fellow; Institute of Brand and Brand Relationships,

2014  Ranked as one of the pre-eminent marketing scholars in Consumer Behavior (1st in Canada, 4th in non-US schools, top 25 in the world including the US) in a recent paper; Journal of Marketing Education, doi: 10.1177/0273475313514234

2013  Keynote Speaker; 3rd International Consumer-Brand Relationship Conference

2000  Alden G. Clayton Award for Best Dissertation Proposal; Marketing Science Institute

2000  Fellow; AMA Doctoral Consortium

2000  Doctoral Fellow; Kilts Center, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago

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Books

Anthropomorphism, in International Handbook of Consumer Psychology, (Eds) Cathrin V. Jansson-Boyd and Magdalena J. Zawinsza; Pankaj Aggarwal and Ann L. McGill; Routledge, New York; 2017; Pages: 600-618

Linear versus Step-Function Decision Making: The Moderating Role of Relationship Norms on Consumer Responses to Brand Transgressions; Pankaj Aggarwal and Megha Agarwal; Emerald Group; 2015; Pages: 207-232

Befriending Mr. Clean: The Role of Anthropomorphism in Consumer Brand Relationships; Jing Wan and Pankaj Aggarwal; Routledge; 2015; Pages: 119-134

Dominant Designs: The Role of Product Face-Ratios and Anthropomorphism on Personality Traits and Consumer Preferences; Ahreum Maeng and Pankaj Aggarwal; Routledge; 2015

My Aunt Jemima and Your Uncle Ben: Brands As People, in David Soberman and Dilip Soman (Eds.), Flux: What Marketing Managers Need to Know to Navigate the New Environment,; Pankaj Aggarwal; Toronto: University of Toronto Press.; 2012

Mental Accounting in Consumer Brand Relationships, in Michael Breazeale, Marc Fetscherin, Susan Fournier, and T.C. Melewar (Eds.) Consumer-Brand Relationships: Insights For Theory and Practice; Pankaj Aggarwal and Maggie Wenjing Liu; Routledge: USA; 2011

Using Relationship Norms to Understand Consumer-Brand Interactions, in Deborah J. MacInnis, C. Whan Park, and Joseph R. Priester (Eds.) Handbook of Brand Relationships; Pankaj Aggarwal; New York, NY: Sharpe; 2009; Pages: 24-42

Gaining Power through Dominant Looking Products; Ahreum Maeng and Pankaj Aggarwal; in Understanding Indian Consumer (Editors Durairaj Maheswaran and Thoman Puliyal); Issue: Oxford University Press; 2018; Pages: 194-214

Papers

  • Anthropomorphism, in International Handbook of Consumer Psychology, (Eds) Cathrin V. Jansson-Boyd and Magdalena J. Zawinsza; Pankaj Aggarwal and Ann L. McGill; Routledge, New York; 2017; Pages: 600-618
  • Linear versus Step-Function Decision Making: The Moderating Role of Relationship Norms on Consumer Responses to Brand Transgressions; Pankaj Aggarwal and Megha Agarwal; Emerald Group; 2015; Pages: 207-232
  • Befriending Mr. Clean: The Role of Anthropomorphism in Consumer Brand Relationships; Jing Wan and Pankaj Aggarwal; Routledge; 2015; Pages: 119-134
  • Dominant Designs: The Role of Product Face-Ratios and Anthropomorphism on Personality Traits and Consumer Preferences; Ahreum Maeng and Pankaj Aggarwal; Routledge; 2015
  • My Aunt Jemima and Your Uncle Ben: Brands As People, in David Soberman and Dilip Soman (Eds.), Flux: What Marketing Managers Need to Know to Navigate the New Environment,; Pankaj Aggarwal; Toronto: University of Toronto Press.; 2012
  • Mental Accounting in Consumer Brand Relationships, in Michael Breazeale, Marc Fetscherin, Susan Fournier, and T.C. Melewar (Eds.) Consumer-Brand Relationships: Insights For Theory and Practice; Pankaj Aggarwal and Maggie Wenjing Liu; Routledge: USA; 2011
  • Using Relationship Norms to Understand Consumer-Brand Interactions, in Deborah J. MacInnis, C. Whan Park, and Joseph R. Priester (Eds.) Handbook of Brand Relationships; Pankaj Aggarwal; New York, NY: Sharpe; 2009; Pages: 24-42
  • Gaining Power through Dominant Looking Products; Ahreum Maeng and Pankaj Aggarwal; in Understanding Indian Consumer (Editors Durairaj Maheswaran and Thoman Puliyal); Issue: Oxford University Press; 2018; Pages: 194-214

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