2021 marks the second year since the Sheth Foundation endowed the Symposium and became an official co-sponsor.
ACR/Sheth Foundation Doctoral Symposium
Thursday October 28th, 2021
7 – 10am PST / 10am – 1pm EST / 2 – 5pm GMT / 8 – 11pm IST
2021 marks the second year since the Sheth Foundation endowed the Symposium and became an official co-sponsor.
ACR/Sheth Foundation Doctoral Symposium
Thursday October 28th, 2021
7 – 10am PST / 10am – 1pm EST / 2 – 5pm GMT / 8 – 11pm IST
Jinwoo Kim – Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
How Contexts of Consumption Affect Hedonic Decline: Increasing Sequence versus Decreasing Sequence
Samuel Sekar – University of South Florida
The Incidental Effect of Changes in Nutritional Labelling Regulations on Consumers’ Preference for Healthy Options – An Attention Based Explanation
Artyom Golossenko – Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia
Find your voice: Development and validation of a brand tone of voice scale
Rohan Venkatraman – Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne
Exploring Bodies and Aesthetic Practices in the Construction and Enactment of Consumer Performances
Shuqi Zhu – Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Device, Fast and Slow: How Electronic Devices Influence Consumer Decisions
The Jagdish N. Sheth Best JAMS Article Award is awarded to individuals who author a paper that is chosen as the best paper published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science each year. The award began in 1992 with the generous donation from Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth and has retained his name since that time.
Winner Selection Process: Members of the JAMS Editorial Board submit votes for the best JAMS article. The author of the paper with the highest number of votes is awarded.
Winner Recognition: Winners are awarded a plaque in addition to a $500* check drawn from a U.S. bank.

The award honors the best article published in the Journal of Marketing that has made long-term contributions to the field of marketing.



Linda Price joined the Sheth Foundation Board in 2014 and is currently the Underwood Family Professor of Marketing at the University of Arizona.
There, her research focuses on Social Context of Marketplace Behaviors and Consumers’ Emotions, Imaginations, and Creativity.
She previously held academic positions at University of Nebrask, Odense University in Denmark, University of South Florida, University of California Irvine, University of Colorado Boulder and University of Pittsburgh.
Price received her B.A. with Honors in International Studies and M.B.A. (concentration in marketing & finance) from the University of Wyoming. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from University of Texas Austin. Price is actively involved in a variety of academic associations, including Association for Consumer Research (President Elect, 2013), American Marketing Association, (Academic Council, 2012-2015) and Consumer Culture Theory (Advisory Council, 2011-2013 & Conference Co-Chair, 2013).
