Adam Hepworth
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Copeland 409D
Education
- Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 2019. Business Administration, Marketing.
- M.B.A., University of Dallas, 2008. Sports & Entertainment Management.
- B.S., Texas Christian University, 2006. Media Business.
Biography
Adam Hepworth is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and Associate Director of Client Relations and faculty advisor in the Center for Consumer Research and Analytics (CRA). He received his PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests focus on consumer-based strategy, customer-employee interactions, and frontline employees. Prior to academia, Adam worked for several years in the field of digital marketing.
Research Interests
Consumer-based marketing strategy, frontline employee marketing, services marketing, customer-interfacing employees, authentic communication
Publications
- Hepworth, Adam, Na Young Lee, and Alex R. Zablah, Journal of Business Research.
- Hartman, Katherine B., Jacob L. Hiler, Jessica Babin, and Adam Hepworth (2020), 鈥淐SR and Gen Z: Expectations and Consumption Behaviors by Cause,鈥 Journal of Management and Marketing Research, 24, 1-9.
- Krasnikov, Alexander V., Kelly Hewett, and Adam Hepworth (2020), 鈥淭he Impact of Home Market Institutional Conditions on Market Entry Strategies of Firms from Emerging Markets,鈥 in Business Practices, Growth and Economic Policy in Emerging Markets, Singapore: World Scientific Publishers.
- Hewett, Kelly, Adam Hepworth, and Sharon Watson (2016), 鈥淚ntegration with the Customer,鈥 Chapter 11 in Supply Chain Integration as a Competitive Advantage, Chad W. Autry and Mark A. Moon (Eds.), Pearson: Hoboken, NJ.
Presentations & Awards
- Society for Marketing Advances Annual Conference, November 2021. Adam Hepworth, James 鈥淢ick鈥 Andzulis, and Jessica Babin Weeks, 鈥淚nclusivity in Business Schools: Understanding the Student Experience鈥 Orlando, FL.
- Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, May 2020. Adam Hepworth, Nawar Chaker, and Alex R. Zablah, 鈥淒itch the Script: Why and When Customers Respond Favorably to Frontline Employee Displays of Negative Emotion."
- American Marketing Association Summer Conference Special Session on Emerging and Neglected Topics in Sales, August 2018. Nawar Chaker, Adam Hepworth, and Alex R. Zablah, 鈥淚f at First You Don鈥檛 Succeed, Try Again鈥 Sometimes,鈥 Boston, MA.
- American Marketing Association Winter Conference, February 2018. Adam Hepworth and Nawar Chaker, 鈥淎ll Stressed Out: An Examination of Frontline Employee Stressors and Future Research Agenda,鈥 New Orleans, LA.
- American Marketing Association Winter Conference, February 2018. Adam Hepworth, Alexander V. Krasnikov, and Kelly Hewett, 鈥淚nternationalization of the Emerging Market Brands: The Role of the Domestic Institutional Environment,鈥 New Orleans, LA.
- American Marketing Association Summer Conference, August 2016. Alexander V. Krasnikov, Adam Hepworth, and Kelly Hewett, 鈥淚nternationalization of Brands from Emerging Markets,鈥 Atlanta, GA.
- Southeast Marketing Symposium, February 2016. Adam Hepworth, 鈥淯nderstanding Convergent Salesperson Pressures,鈥 Starkville, MS.
- Academy of International Business Conference, 2016. Alexander V. Krasnikov, Adam Hepworth, and Kelly Hewett, 鈥淭he Impact of Home Market Institutional Conditions on Market Entry Strategies of Firms from Emerging Markets,鈥 New Orleans, LA.
- Society for Marketing Advances Conference, November 2015. Hepworth, Adam, 鈥淎 Synthesis of Sales Pressures and Agenda for Future Research,鈥 San Antonio, TX.
Awards
- 2019 Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Haslam College of Business
- 2018 Marketing Strategy Consortium Fellow