• Commonwealth Academic Fellow - London Business School, UK
• Visiting Researcher to Syracuse University, USA
• PhD (ICFAI University with one year visiting program at Syracuse University, USA)
• MBA (Gold Medalist, University of Calcutta)
• BE (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur)

Academic Positions

• Chairman - Executive Post Graduate Program
• Chairman - Executive Post Graduate Program
• Chairman - Executive Post Graduate Program
• Chair - Marketing Area
• Associate Editor – Management and Society
• Reviewer of journal Cornell Hospitality Quarterly
• Review board in Journal of Agribusiness in Dvelopingand Emerging Economies

Awards

• Winner in ISB-IVEY Global Case Competition 2013 in Marketing Category.
• Runners-up in “EFMD 2012 Case Writing Competition.” in ‘Indian Management issues and Opportunities’ category from EFMD, Belgium
• Selected as Emerging Scholar in 2011 by Academy of Marketing Science, USA
• Runners-up in “2009 Oikos Global Case Writing Competition” held at Switzerland
• Received “2007 Meritorious Teaching Award” from Marketing Management Association, USA
• Received “EFMD 2006 Case Writing Competition.” Best case Award in ‘Transitory Economy’ category from EFMD, Belgium
• Received Gold Medal in MBA from IISWBM, Calcutta University
• Received National Scholarship for securing high rank in Std. XII examination

Conferences, Seminars & Talks

• Pay What You Think Fair, World Marketing Congress of Academy of Marketing Science, July 2013
• Pricing of a perishable products, (with Manpreet Gill), 5th Great Lakes NASMEI marketing conference, 29th and 30 December 2011
• Bargaining behaviour in family buying decision, (with A K Rao), international conference in marketing (Marcon) at Indian Institute of management Calcutta, December 27-29, 2010
• Pricing of Experience Product under Consumer Heterogeneity, (With Amiya Basu and S P Raj), 2010 Pricing Conference, Babson College, Boston, August 11 – 13, 2010
• Modeling optimum Cognitive and affective Ad content to maximise purchase intention (with Manpreet Gill), 32nd INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Cologne, Germany, June 16-19, 2010
• Hierarchical Bayes Analysis with Segment Level Hyper-parameter: Application and Performance through Sample Survey, in Sample Survey and Bayesian Statistics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, August 26 – 30, 2008
• Split Prior Technique in HB Application, Annual conference of Royal Statistical Society, University of Nottingham, UK September 1 – 5, 2008.
• Use of segment level prior hyperparameter in Bayesian analysis for behavioral research, paper presented in 7th World congress in probability and statistics at National University of Singapore on July 14 – 19, 2008
• Pricing of Experience Product under Individual Budget Constraint – An Hierarchical Bayes Model, paper presented at Seminar on Bayesian Inference on Econometrics and Statistics at University of Washington. St. Louis on May 4-5, 2007
• Pricing of Public Services in Public Private Partnership, International Conference on PPP, IIM Bangalore

Current Projects

• Marketing of Customer Experience: a Review and Framework (Paper being readied for submission)
• Pay What You Think Fair - Buyer Willingness to Pay under No, Part and Full Information of Cost
• Measurement of experience product: a scale development and validation (with Anat Keinan and S Bhattacharya)
• The effects of economic and time resources: an Inter-individual analysis of information seeking (With M Chakrabarty)
• Case Study - Tanishq Mia - Bringing Jwellery to Daily Life
• Case Study - Hindusthan Motors: The New Amby
• ARP-SP AS ANCHORS OF LATITUDE OF EXPECTED PRICE AND THEIR IMPACT ON PURCHASE INTENTION (with Rajesh Sinha). 1st R&R European Journal of Marketing,paper Revised and resubmitted to
• Effect of Intra-organizational Learning on Market Orientation: A study in Tourism Sector, Under review with Annals of Tourism Research
• WHY PREPAID BUYERS ARE LIKELY TO STICK TO A PURCHASE AMOUNT? ADVANCE BUYER-SELLER EQUILIBRIUM FOR PURE PREPAID SERVICES (With Rajesh Sinha) being readied for Journal of Quantitative Marketing and Economics
• Congruence or Incongruence? Investigating Cognitive and Affective Reasons for Purchase of Tourism Product Being prepared for JTR
• Effect of Associated Price Stimuli on Willingness to Pay: A Byesian Approach with Consumer Level Heterogeneity, paper being readied for Journal of Marketing Management
• Effect of Associated Price Stimuli on Willingness to Pay: A Byesian Approach with Consumer Level Heterogeneity, paper being readied for Journal of Marketing Management

Research Areas

• Advertised reference price and sales price as anchors of the latitude of expected price and its impact on purchase intention (with Sinha, R., 2017), forthcoming in European Journal of Marketing (A*)doi/abs/10.1108/EJM-03-2016-0177
• Micro Modelling of Individual Traveller’ Information Seeking Behaviour: a Heterogeneity Specific Study (with M. Chakrabarty Adhikary), 2017, Current Issues in Tourism journal (A)
• Proactive Market Orientation and Innovation in India: The Moderating Role of Intra-Firm Causal Ambiguity (with Lakshman Chandrasekhar and Rajeev Kumra, 2016), Journal of Management and Organization, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
• Goal Congruence in Hedonistic and Utilitarian Reasons for Purchase and Features of a Product ( with Jha, S. 2016). South Asian Journal of Management, 23(2), 72.
• Textbook "MR - Marketing Research (4 LTR)", with Brown, J Tom and Suter, A. Tracy, Cengage Learning, 2016.
• Differentiating Subjective and Objective Features of Experience Product to Estimating Price Premium, Forthcoming in Journal of Travel Research (A* Category ABDC)
• Appraisal of literature on customer experience in tourism sector: Review and framework (with Saurabh Bhattacharyya, 2015), Current Issues in Tourism journal (A Category), 2015, DOI:10.1080/13683500.2015.1082538
• Pricing of Experience Product under Consumer Heterogeneity (with Basu A K and Raj S P), 2013, International Journal of Hospitality Management (A* Category ABDC), Vol 33: 6-18.
• Individual preference and bargaining behavior in family buying decision of restaurant services (with Rao A K), 2013, Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (A Category ABDC), 54 (3), 248-261.
• Impact of resources, capabilities and technology on market orientation of Indian B2B firm” (with Manpreet Gill), 2011, Journal of Services Research, Vol 11, No 2.
• Textbook "Business Research Methods" (With Zikmund, Babin, Carr and Griffin), 2013, South-Western, Thomson
• Technology Inclination-based Segments of Indian Customers A Adhikari, AK Rao Journal of Creative Communications 1 (3), 219-233
• Market orientation when customers seem content with the status quo: observations from Indian agri-business and a case study. SP Raj, A Adhikari, A Lindgreen, MK Hingley, D Harness, P Custance Market orientation: transforming food and agribusiness around the customer
• Technology Inclination and Adoption Relationship: An Expository Review and Extension of Mathematical Model6. A Adhikari, AK Rao Innovative technology and globalization, 74
• Factors Affecting Technology Adoption in India A Adhikari, AK Rao Global Consumer Behavior, 219-236
• Indraprastha Cold Storage Ltd: Value Added Strategy in an Emerging Market (with S P Raj), The case is published by Ivey publication. Case ID number 9B12A055
• UTV and Disney: A Strategic Alliance (with Dr R Deshmukh). The case is published by Ivey publishing. Harvard business publishing Case ID number 910M43-PDF-ENG.
• ideaForge: Mechanical Charger (with Dr R Deshmukh). The case is published by Ivey publication and distributed through Harvard Business Publishing. Harvard Business Publishing Case ID number W12169 – PDF – ENG
• Multimedia field research case Orchid Ecotel (with Dr R Deshmukh). The case is published by Ivey publication and distributed through Harvard Business Publishing. Harvard Business Publishing Case ID number W11394 – PDF – ENG.
• Multimedia field research case COMPFED: The Dairy Cooperative Distribution System (with Subhas Jha). The case is published by Ivey publication and distributed through Harvard Business Publishing. Harvard Business Publishing Case ID number W11822 – PDF – ENG
• Multimedia field research case on ‘Tata Power: Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability’ (With Dr. R. Deshmukh). The case received second prize “2009 Oikos International case writing competition’ in Switzerland. The case published by Ivey publishing and distributed through Howard Business Publishing. Harvard Business Publishing Case ID number 910M13-PDF-ENG
• ‘Edible Agro Products Limited: Delivering Greater Value to the Farmers’ (with A Das). Forthcoming in Ivey Publication. This case received best case award in marketing category in ISB-Ivey Global Case Writing Competition, 2013.
• Multimedia field research case on ‘Hero Honda: The ‘Pleasure’ Scooter’, (with Dr. S P Raj), ECCH
• Multimedia field research case on Tanishq: Bringing Jewellery to Daily Life (with Deshmukh R),

Working Papers

1.   Differentiating Subjective and Objective Product Attributes For Pricing Experience Products:
Atanu Adhikari    (2012)    Abstract

2.   Micro Modeling of Individual Level Information Seeking Behavior: A Heterogeneity Specific Study
Mahuya Adhikary; Atanu Adhikari; Chaitali Dutta    (2012)    Abstract
3.   The effects of economic and time resources: an Inter-individual analysis of information seeking
Mahuya Adhikary; Atanu Adhikari    (2012)    Abstract