Academic Research in Business and the Social Sciences: A Guidebook for Early Career Researchers

This book provides doctoral students, junior faculty and early-career researchers with guidelines, resources and strategies for performing and publishing academic research successfully. It helps increase the productivity of researchers by showing efficient and effective ways to increase research output and publication probability, ranging from manuscript preparation and positioning to working with co-authors and journal reviewers. The author uses research findings, anecdotal evidence and illustrations from his academic career to support his views on strategies and tactics that are required of scholars in order to succeed.

George P. Moschis is Professor of Marketing Emeritus at Georgia State University (USA); and Professor of Management at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. He is an internationally-known authority on consumer topics relevant to people at different stages in life, from children and adolescents to elderly. Professor Moschis established and directed the Center for Mature Consumer Studies for 33 years, has been studying consumers for five decades and has published large numbers of articles and books about their behaviors at various life stages and over the entire life course.