Abhijit Biswas

Title

Chair, Department of Marketing
Kmart Endowed Chair and Professor of Marketing
WSU Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellow

Phone

313-577-1499

Email

a.biswas@wayne.edu

Office

Mike Ilitch School of Business
2771 Woodward Avenue
Room 215
Detroit, MI 48201

Academic Programs

Marketing

Abhijit Biswas

Biography

Professional experience

Chair, Department of Marketing, 2023 to Present
Kmart Endowed Chair and Professor of Marketing, 2004 to Present
Ph.D. Program Advisor, Marketing, 2010 to 2023
Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Summer 2016, 2017
Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India, 2014-2016
Visiting Faculty, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India, 2013
Visiting Faculty, Calcutta Business School, 2009-2013
Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, 2007
Visiting Faculty, Louisiana State University, Summer 2005
Ph.D. Program Advisor, LSU, 1995-1999, 2000-2004
Professor of Marketing, Louisiana State University, 2000 - 2004
Associate Professor of Marketing, Louisiana State University, 1994 - 2000
Visiting Faculty, Tulane University, Summer 1998
Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Summer - Fall 1996
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Louisiana State University, 1988 - 1994

Associate editor

Journal of Business Research (1995 – 2007)

Editorial review boards (current and past)

Journal of Marketing
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Journal of Retailing
Journal of Business Research
Journal of Consumer Marketing
Journal of Public Policy and Marketing
Journal of Advertising

Ad hoc reviewer

Journal of Marketing
Journal of Consumer Psychology
Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of Marketing Research
Journal of Retailing
Marketing Letters

Additional memberships

American Marketing Association (AMA)
Association for Consumer Research (ACR)
Society for Marketing Advances (SMA)
Academy of Marketing Science (AMS)

Education

Ph.D. Marketing, University of Houston
M.B.A. University of Central Oklahoma
M.A. Economics, University of Calcutta, India
B.A. Economics (Honors), St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, India

Expertise

Consumer Behavior, Psychological Effects of Pricing, Advertising Effects and Cross-cultural Issues.

AACSB specialty

Marketing

Research and teaching interests

Research

Google Scholar profile
Consumer Perceptions of Price Promotion
Reference Prices
Low Price Guarantees
Partitioned Pricing
Source Credibility and Advertising Effectiveness
Consumer Decision Making and Regret
Consumer Irritation and Advertising Effectiveness

Teaching

Marketing Management
Marketing Research
Consumer Behavior
Marketing Theory
Experimental Methods

Publications

Burman, Bidisha, Swati Verma, Joydeep Srivastava, Abhijit Guha and Abhijit Biswas, “Can a Price Discount Backfire? Effects of the Juxtaposition of Add-On Fees and Price Discounts on Consumer Evaluations”, Journal of Business Research, Forthcoming (Accepted November 19, 2023).
Banerjee, Somak, Sujay Dutta, Abhijit Biswas and Hyokjin Kwak,, “The Impact of Consumer Expectations and Familiarity on Deceptive Pricing in Advertising: A View from Drip Pricing Practice”, International Journal of Advertising, Forthcoming (Accepted November 6, 2023).
Jha, Subhash, Abhijit Biswas, Abhijit Guha, and Dinesh Gauri (2023), “Can Rounding Up Price Discounts Reduce Sales?" Journal of Consumer Psychology, Forthcoming.
Bhattacharyya, Ayan, Subhash Jha, Abhijit Guha, and Abhijit Biswas (2023), “Should Firms Display the Sale Price Using Larger Font?” Journal of Retailing, Vol. 99 (1), 17-25.
Ravula, Prashanth, Subhash Jha and Abhijit Biswas (2022), "Relative Persuasiveness of Repurchase Intentions versus Recommendations in Online Reviews," Journal of Retailing, Vol 98 (4), 724-740.
Dutta, Sujay, Somak Banerjee, Aaron C. Johnson and Abhijit Biswas (2022), "Overcoming the Challenge of Low Familiarity: Can A Weakly Familiar Brand Signal Quality with Exceptionally Strong Warranty?" Journal of Business Research, Vol. 141, March, 737-754.
Verma, Swati, Abhijit Guha, Abhijit Biswas and Dhruv Grewal (2019), “Are Low Price and Price Matching Guarantees Equivalent? The Effects of Different Price Guarantees on Consumers' Evaluations," Journal of Retailing, Vol. 95 (3), 99-108. Runner-up of the 2020 Davidson award for the best paper published in the Journal of Retailing in 2019.
Dutta Sujay, Abhijit Guha, Abhijit Biswas and Dhruv Grewal (2019), "Can Attempts to Delight Consumers with Surprise Gains Boomerang? A Test using Low-price Guarantees," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 47 (3), 417-437.
Roy, Subhadip, Abhijit Guha, Abhijit Biswas and Dhruv Grewal (2019), "Celebrity Endorsements in Emerging Markets: Align Endorsers with Brands Represented, or with Consumers Targeted?" Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 50 (3), 295-317.
Guha, Abhijit, Abhijit Biswas, Dhruv Grewal, Sandeep Bhowmick and Jens Nordfaldt (2018), "An Empirical Analysis of the Joint Effects of Shoppers’ Goals and Attribute Display on Shoppers’ Evaluations," Journal of Marketing, Vol. 82 (May), 142-156.
Guha, Abhijit, Abhijit Biswas, Dhruv Grewal, Swati Verma, Somak Banerjee and Jens Nordfaldt (2018), "Reframing Discounts Via Comparison to the Sale Price: Does It Make Discounts More Attractive?," Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. LV (June), 339-351.
Verma, Swati, Abhijit Guha and Abhijit Biswas (2016), “Investigating the Pleasures of Sin: The Contingent Role of Arousal-Seeking Disposition on Consumers’ Evaluations of Vice and Virtue Product Offerings,” Psychology and Marketing, 33 (8), 620-628.
Das, Neel, Abhijit Guha, Abhijit Biswas, and Balaji Krishnan (2016), "How Product-Cause Fit and Donation Quantifier Interact in Cause Related Marketing (CRM) Settings: Evidence of the Cue Congruency Effect," Marketing Letters, Vol. 27 (2), 295-308.
Roy, Subhadip, Abhijit Guha and Abhijit Biswas (2015), "Celebrity Endorsements and Women Consumers in India: How Generation-Cohort Affiliation and Celebrity-Product Congruency Moderates the Benefits of Chronological Age Congruency," Marketing Letters, Vol. 26 (3), 363-376.
Shin, Dongwoo, Jihee Song, and Abhijit Biswas (2014), "Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) Generation in Online Communities: The Role of Regulatory Focus and Collective Dissonance," Marketing Letters, June, Vol. 25, No. 2, 153-165.
Biswas, Abhijit, Sandeep Bhowmick, Abhijit Guha, and Dhruv Grewal (2013), "Consumer Evaluations of Sale Prices: Role of the Subtraction Principle," Journal of Marketing, Vol. 77, No. 4, 49-66.
Thota, Sweta, Jihee Song, and Abhijit Biswas (2012), "Is a Website Known by the Banner Ads it Hosts? Assessing Forward and Reciprocal Spillover Effects of Banner Ads and Host Websites," International Journal of Advertising, Vol. 31, No. 4, 877-906.
Dutta, Sujay, Abhijit Biswas, and Dhruv Grewal (2011), "Regret from Post-purchase Discovery of Lower Market Prices: Do Price Refunds Help?" Journal of Marketing, Vol. 75, No. 6, 124-138.
Yagci, Mehmet, Abhijit Biswas, and Sujay Dutta (2009), "Effects of Comparative Advertising Format on Consumer Responses: The Moderating Effects of Brand Image and Attribute Relevance," Journal of Business Research, Vol. 62, No. 8, 768-774.
Biswas, Dipayan, Sujay Dutta, and Abhijit Biswas (2009), "Individual Effects of Product Quality Signals in the Presence versus Absence of Other Signals: Differential Effects across Brick-and-Mortar and Online Settings," Journal of Product and Brand Management, Vol. 18, No. 7, 487-496.
Biswas, Dipayan, Abhijit Biswas, and Subimal Chatterjee (2009), "Making Judgments in a Two-Sequence Cue Environment: The Effects of Differential Cue Strengths, Order Sequence, and Distraction," Journal of Consumer Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 1, 88-97.
Sweta Thota and Abhijit Biswas (2009), "I Want to Buy the Advertised Product Only! An Examination of the Effects of Additional Product Offers on Consumer Irritation in a Cross Promotion Context," Journal of Advertising, Vol. 38, Number 1 (Spring), 123-136.
Dutta Sujay, Abhijit Biswas and Dhruv Grewal (2007), Low Price Signal Default: An Empirical Investigation of its Consequences, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 35, No. 1 (March), 76-88.
Bidisha Burman and Abhijit Biswas (2007), Partitioned Pricing: Can We Always Divide and Prosper? Journal of Retailing, Vol. 83, No. 4, 423-436.
Biswas, Dipayan, Abhijit Biswas and Neel Das (2006), The Effects of Celebrity and Expert Endorsements on Consumer Risk Perceptions: The Moderating Role of Consumer Product Knowledge, Journal of Advertising, Vol. 35,N (Summer), 17-31.
Krishnan, Balaji, Abhijit Biswas and Richard G. Netemeyer (2006), Semantic Cues in Reference Price Advertisements: The Moderating Role of Cue Concreteness, Journal of Retailing, Vol. 82, No. 2 (Summer), 95-104.
Biswas Abhijit, Sujay Dutta and Chris Pullig (2006), Low Price Guarantees as Signals of Lowest Price: The Moderating Role of Perceived Price Dispersion, Journal of Retailing, Vol. 82, No. 3 (Fall), 245-257.
Pullig, Chris, Richard G. Netemeyer and Abhijit Biswas (2006), Attitude Basis, Certainty, and Challenge Alignment: A Case of Negative Brand Publicity, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Fall), 528-542.
Das, Neel, Bidisha Burman and Abhijit Biswas (2006), Effects of Discounts on Search and Shopping Intentions: The Moderating Role of Shopping Environment, International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall), 155-168.
Dutta, Sujay and Abhijit Biswas (2005), Effects of Low Price Guarantees on Consumer Post-Purchase Search Intention: The Moderating Roles of Value Consciousness and Penalty Level, Journal of Retailing, Vol. 81, No.4, 283-291.
Biswas, Abhijit and Ram Krishnan (2004), The Impact of Internet on Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Special Issue on Marketing on the Web? Behavioral, Strategy & Practices and Public Policy, Vol 57, No. 7, 681-684.
Biswas Dipayan and Abhijit Biswas (2004), The Diagnostic Role of Signals in the Context of Perceived Risks in Online Shopping: Do Signals Matter More on the Web? Journal of Interactive Marketing, Vol 18, No. 3, 30-45.
Burman Bidisha and Abhijit Biswas (2004), Reference Prices in Retail Advertisements: Moderating Effects of Market Price Dispersion and Need for Cognition on Consumer Value Perception and Shopping Intention, Journal of Product and Brand Management, Vol. 13, No. 6, 379-389
Rodrigue, Christina and Abhijit Biswas (2004), Brand Alliance Dependency and Exclusivity: An Empirical Investigation, Journal of Product and Brand Management, Vol.13, No.7, 477-487.
Alford, Bruce and Abhijit Biswas (2002), "The Effects of Discount Level, Price Consciousness and Sale Proneness on Consumers' Price Perception and Behavioral Intentions," Journal of Business Research, Vol. 55, No. 9, 775-783.
Biswas, Abhijit, Chris Pullig, Mehmet I. Yagci and Dwane H. Dean (2002), "Consumer Evaluation of Low Price Guarantees: The Moderating Role of Reference Price and Store Image," Journal Consumer Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 2, 107-118.
Dean, Dwane H. Dean and Abhijit Biswas (2001), "Third-Party Organization Endorsement of Products: An Advertising Cue Affecting Consumer Pre-purchase Evaluation of Goods and Services," Journal of Advertising, Vol. XXX, No. 4, 41-57.
Biswas, Abhijit, Jane W. Licata, Daryl McKee, Chris Pullig, and Christopher Dauthridge (2000), "The Recycling Cycle: An Empirical Investigation of Consumer Waste Recycling and Recycling Shopping Behaviors," Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Vol. 19, No. 1, 93-105.
Biswas, Abhijit, Chris Pullig, Balaji C. Krishnan and Scot Burton (1999), "Consumer Evaluation of Reference Price Advertisements: Effects of "Other" Brand's Prices and Semantic Cues," Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Vol. 18, No. 1, 52-65.
Licata, Jane W., Abhijit Biswas and Balaji C. Krishnan (1998), "Ambiguity and Exaggeration in Price Promotion: Perceptions of the Elder and Non Elder Consumers," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 1, 56-81.
Jackson, Anita, Abhijit Biswas and Ruth Lumb (1995), "A Cross National Investigation of Product Perception: Comparison of Products Made-in China, India, Hong Kong, and the U.S. by Respondents from Each Country," Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, Vol. 1, No. 2, 45-48.
Wilson, Elizabeth and Abhijit Biswas (1995), "The Use of Black Models in Specialty Catalogs," Journal of Direct Marketing, Vol. 9, No. 4, 47-56.Sherrell, Daniel L. and Abhijit Biswas (1995), "Role of Price in Consumer Quality Judgments for Professional Services," Journal of Customer Service in Marketing & Management, Vol.1, No. 1, 45-56.
Burton Scot, Donald Lichtenstein, Abhijit Biswas and Katherine Fraccastoro (1994), "The Role of Attributions in Consumer Perceptions of Retail Ads Promoting Price Discounts" Marketing Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, 131-140.
Biswas, Abhijit and Scot Burton (1994), "An Experimental Assessment of Effects Associated With Alternative Tensile Price Claims," Journal of Business Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, 65-73.
Burton, Scot, Abhijit Biswas and Richard G. Netemeyer (1994), "Effects of Alternative Nutrition Label Formats and Nutrition Reference Information on Consumer Perceptions, Comprehension, and Product Evaluations," Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Vol. 13, No. 1, 36-47.
Olsen, Janeen E., Kent L. Granzin and Abhijit Biswas (1993), "Influencing Consumers' Selection of Domestic Vs. Imported Products: Implications for Marketing Based on a Model of Helping Behavior," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 21, No. 4, 307-322.
Licata, Jane W. and Abhijit Biswas (1993), "Representation, Roles, and Occupational Status of Black Models in Television Advertisements," Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4, 868-882.
McKee, Daryl and Abhijit Biswas (1993), "Community Resources and Economic Development Marketing Strategy: An Empirical Investigation," Journal of Macromarketing, Vol. 13, No. 1, 33-47.
Burns, Alvin C., Abhijit Biswas and Laurie A. Babin (1993), "The Operation of Visual Imagery as a Mediator of Advertising Effects," Journal of Advertising, Vol. 22, No. 2, 71-85.
Burton, Scot and Abhijit Biswas (1993), "A Preliminary Assessment of the Effects of Changes in Nutrition Labels Required by the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 1, 127-144.
Biswas, Abhijit and Scot Burton (1993), "Consumer Perceptions of Tensile Price Claims in Advertisements: An Assessment of Claim Types Across Different Discount Levels," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 21, No. 3, 217-229.
Biswas, Abhijit, Elizabeth J. Wilson and Jane W. Licata (1993), "Reference Pricing Studies in Marketing: A Synthesis of Research Results," Journal of Business Research, Vol. 27, No. 3, 239-256.
Fraccastoro, Katherine, Scot Burton and Abhijit Biswas (1993), "Effective Use of Advertisements Promoting Sale Prices," Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 10, No. 1, 60-69.
Biswas, Abhijit and Daniel L. Sherrell (1993), "The Influence of Product Knowledge and Brand Name on Internal Price Standards and Confidence," Psychology and Marketing, Vol. 10, No. 1, 31-46.
Olsen, Janeen E., Abhijit Biswas and Madhav Kacker (1992), "The Changing European Market: Strategies for Companies From Developing Nations," Journal of Euromarketing, Vol. 2, No. 1, 99-115.
Biswas, Abhijit, Janeen E. Olsen and Valerie Carlet (1992), "A Comparison of Print Advertisements from the United States and France," Journal of Advertising, Vol. 21, No. 4, 73-81.
Biswas, Abhijit (1992), "The Moderating Role of Brand Familiarity in Reference Price Perceptions," Journal of Business Research, Vol. 25, No. 3, 251-262.
Biswas, Abhijit and Edward A. Blair (1991), "Contextual Effects of Reference Prices in Retail Advertisements," Journal of Marketing, Vol. 55, No. 3, 1-12.
Zinkhan, George M., William J. Qualls and Abhijit Biswas (1990), "The Use of Blacks in Magazines and Television Advertising: 1946 to 1986," Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 3, 547-553.

Awards

Research awards

Lifetime Achievement Award, American Marketing Association, Retail and Pricing SIG, 2022
Runner-up of the 2020 Davidson award for the best paper published in the Journal of Retailing in 2019
Excellence in Research Award, Wayne State University - School of Business, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
Distinguished Faculty Award, Louisiana State University, 1999
Piccadilly Cafeterias, Inc. Distinguished Professorship, LSU, 1999 - 2002
Best Paper Award, Consumer Behavior Track, AMA Winter Conference 2003
Best Student Paper Award, Consumer Behavior Track, AMA Winter Conference 2003
Best Overall Student Paper, (Co-author), AMA Winter Conference 2003
Best Theoretical Paper, Society for Marketing Advances, 1999
Best-in-Track Paper, Sales Promotion, Society for Marketing Advances, 1999
M. Wayne Delozier Best Conference Paper Award, Academy of Marketing Science Conference, 1996
Best-in-Track Paper, Product and Price Management, Academy of Marketing Science Conference, 1996

Teaching awards and nominations

Marjory B. Ourso Excellence in Teaching Professorship, LSU, 1997- 1999; 2001- 2004
Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Award, LSU, 2001
LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award, 1998
Erich and Lea Sternberg Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award, LSU, 1994-95
Nominated for the 1995 U.S. Professors of the Year Competition Sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Nominated for the University Excellence in Teaching Award, LSU, 1995
Nominated for the AMOCO Teaching Award, LSU, 1995
Outstanding Teacher - Student Government Association, LSU, 1992-93

Other awards and honors