College of Business Administration Assistant Professor to Compete in 2015 International Workshop

Dec. 4, 2014 - PRLog -- Kent State University’s College of Business Administration Assistant Professor César Zamudio in the Marketing and Entrepreneurship Department will compete in the Third Annual Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESPC) Europe Marketing Faculty Publication Workshop, an international, competitive workshop for marketing scholars Jan. 5 – 9, 2015.

“I believe that my participation in this event, as well as obtaining a scholarship from the Marketing Science Institute, represent a great opportunity to increase exposure for Kent State and the College of Business Administration’s marketing discipline,” Zamudio said.

The ESCP Workshop is a prestigious, annual event where marketing scholars starting their career as tenure-track professors are given the opportunity to meet and work witheditors of the top marketing journals – Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and the InternationalJournal of Research in Marketing. The workshop takes place in Paris, France, and is hosted by ESCP Europe.

Entrance to the ESCP Workshop is competitive and limited to 25 scholars each year.  This year’s international scholars represent universities in France, UK, the Netherlands, USA and other regions based on their academic achievement.

“Dr. Zamudio’s acceptance to the ESCP Workshop is one of many of his accomplishments since joining the College of Business Administration. We congratulate César and look forward to his participation in such a prestigious global event,” said College of Business Administration Dean Deborah F. Spake said.

To participate in the event the fee is 1,000 EUR. However, the Marketing Science Institute offers a limited number of scholarships to cover the cost of workshop participation.

Universities attending the ESCP Workshop include:

·          Enterprise Institute (Switzerland)

·         Toulouse Business School (France)

·         University of Lille 2 (France)

·         University of Edinburgh (UK)

·         University of Manchester (UK)

·         Grenoble Ecole of Management (France)

·         Oxford University (UK)

·         HEC Paris (France)

·         University of Namur (Belgium)

·         London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)

·         University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)

·         Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)

·         University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

·         Plymouth University (UK)

·         Cass Business School (UK)

·         Ludwig-Maximillians-University Munich (Germany)

·         Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

·         ESCP Europe (France)

·         Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

·         University of Mannheim (Germany)

·         University of Innsbruck (Austria)

·         Penn State University (USA)

·         Kent State University (USA)

For more information visit the College of Business Administration website at http://www2.kent.edu/business/.

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Kent State’s College of Business Administration is one of only 180 college sor schools of business worldwide to achieve dual accreditation in both business and accounting from AACSB International, the global accrediting body for undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in business and accounting. The College of Business Administration is home to 4,502 students, the second largest business school in Ohio. The College boasts an on-site satellite office of Kent State University’s Career Services Center dedicated to empowering business students to discover career success upon graduation.   The College has three Centers of Excellence; The Global Management Center, Center for Information Systems and the Center of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation that enhance the education of our business students, propel scholarly research, establish innovative industry partnerships and provide outreach to Northeast Ohio and beyond.