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Dr. Marko Grünhagen received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, and serves as the Lumpkin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Marketing at Eastern Illinois University.
An internationally recognized expert on franchising, he has been Chairman of the International Society of Franchising (ISoF) twice in 2009 and 2013, Chair of the Office Depot Small Business Research Forum, and recipient of the Arthur S. Karp Award for the "Best Applied Research Paper on Franchising" by the Educational Foundation of the International Franchise Association (IFA). He serves as Associate Editor for the "Franchising and Small Business Marketing" area of the Journal of Small Business Management, and is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of several academic journals.
Dr. Grünhagen's research has been published in numerous prestigious academic journals such as the Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Macromarketing, European Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of Small Business Management, to name a few. He has been quoted as an expert on franchising by global news outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, The China Business Journal and National Public Radio (NPR), and he has been invited to present his research at professional venues across five continents, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and North America. |
