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Because educational excellence depends on the quality of the faculty, ESSEC strives to recruit the most highly qualified professors. The three assets that best characterize ESSEC faculty are academic excellence, a global frame of mind and instructional creativity. On this page, you will find the CVs of

all our professors, as well as announcements of available positions. 




Sonja Prokopec
Assistant Professor, Marketing Department

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Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
General Information Research Areas Publications Teaching Other Activities
Education
Ph.D. in Marketing - University of Houston

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - University of Central Florida

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing - University of Central Florida {Summa Cum Lauda}
Research Areas
Areas

Mental Budgeting

Self-Regulation

Hedonics and Luxury Branding

Virtual Worlds and Implications for Marketing
 




On-going Projects

“Maximizing Donations with Individually Tailored Suggested Donation Amounts: A Model of Anchor Influence on Compliance and Generosity,” with Arnaud De Bruyn, Invited revision for the Journal of Marketing (JM)  

“Coram Populo: The effect of others in Virtual Worlds, “ with Lakshmi Goel and Iris Junglas, conditionally accepted at Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

 

Academic Publications
Articles
  "Resisting that triple-chocolate cake: Mental budgets and self-control" (P. Krishnamurthy, S. Prokopec), Journal of Consumer Research
  "IF YOU BUILD IT WILL THEY COME? - AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF CONSUMER PERCEPTIONS AND STRATEGY IN VIRTUAL WORLDS" (S. Prokopec, L. Goel), Electronic Commerce Research Journal, Mar 2009


Chapters
  An International Marketing Strategy Perspective on Islamic Marketing. In: Handbook of Islamic Marketing (with M. Kurdy). : Edward Elgar , Gillian Rice and Ozlem Sandikci. 2011


Other Publications
Articles published in conference proceedings
  "The Social Aspects of Virtual Worlds: Implications for Marketing", With L. Goel. In : 2009 AMA Summer Marketing Educators' Conference Proceedings, 2009 AMA Summer Marketing Educators' Conference. : American Marketing Association, 2009
  "The Impact of Anchors on Donors' Behavior: A Field Experiment", With A. De Bryun. In : 2009 ACR North American Conference Proceedings, Association of Consumer Research (ACR). : Association for Consumer Research, 2009
  "The "socialness" of Virtual Worlds", With L. Goel. In : 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems Proceedings, 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems . : Americas Conference on Information Systems , 2009
  "When asking for more leads to getting nothing:The impact of anchors on donation behavior", With A. De Bryun. In : 38th EMAC Annual Conference Proceedings, 38th EMAC Annual Conference. : European Marketing Academy, 2009
  "The Social Aspects of Virtual Worlds: Implications for Marketing". In : 38th EMAC Annual Conference Proceedings, 38th EMAC Annual Conference. : European Marketing Academy, 2009
  "Marketing in Second Life: If you build it, will they come?", With L. Goel. In : 2008 American Marketing Association Winter Educators Conference Proceedings, 2008 American Marketing Association Winter Educators Conference. : American Marketing Association, 2008
  "Beating back that triple chocolate cake:Mental budgets as instruments of self-regulation", With P. Krishnamurthy. In : 2006 North America ACR Conference Proceedings, 2006 North America ACR Conference. : Association for Consumer Research, 2006


Teaching at ESSEC

Consumer Behavior - MBA (Course co-ordinator), MBA Luxe 

International Marketing - MBA (Course co-ordinator)

Marketing Research - MBA

PhD seminar in Qualitative Research Methods and Cosumer Behavior

Awards and Distinctions
Presidential Scholarship - University of Houston

Doctoral Fellowship - University of Houston

UCF Graduate Merit Fellowship

UCF Alumni Trust International Student Scholarship

UCF Founder's Scholar award (awarded to top 1 % of students)

UCF Golden Medallion for Outstanding Academic Achivement

Scholar-Athlete All American 2000, 2001

National Student-Athlete of the Year 2001

Scientific Activities
Conference Presentations
  "The Impact of Anchors on Donors' Behavior: A Field Experiment", (with A. De Bryun). Association for Consumer Research, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 23 Oct 2009
  "The "socialness" of Virtual Worlds", (with L. Goel). 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems , San Francisco, CA, USA, 08 Aug 2009
  "The Social Aspects of Virtual Worlds: Implications for Marketing", (with L. Goel). 2009 AMA Summer Marketing Educators' Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 08 Aug 2009
  "THE SOCIAL ASPECTS OF VIRTUAL WORLDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MARKETING", (with L. Goel). EMAC 2009, Audencia Nantes School of Management , Nantes, France, 29 May 2009
  "When asking for more leads to getting nothing:The impact of anchors on donation behavior", (with A. De Bruyn ). EMAC 2009, Audencia Nantes School of Management, Nantes, France, 28 May 2009
  "Marketing in Second Life: If you build it, will they come?", (with L. Goel). 2008 American Marketing Association Winter Educators Conference, Austin, TX, 18 Feb 2008
  "Beating back that triple chocolate cake:Mental budgets as instruments of self-regulation", (with P. Krishnamurthy). ACR 2006, Orlando, 30 Sep 2006
  "Beating back that triple chocolate cake: Mental Budgets as instruments of self-regulation", (with P. Krishnamurthy). University of Houston Annual Doctoral Symposium, Houston, TX, 08 Apr 2006
Association of Consumer Research (ACR) Conferences: 2003-20011

Affiliations and Academic Responsibilities


American Marketing Association (AMA)

Advances for Consumer Research (ACR)

Society of Consumer Psychology (SCP) 

Useful Links
Marketing
Contact
E-mail

ESSEC Business School
Av. Bernard Hirsch
B.P. 50105
95021 Cergy Pontoise Cedex
France