Douglas Allen

Education

• PhD, Business Administration, Marketing/Consumer Behavior, Pennsylvania State University, 1995.
• MS, Business Administration, Marketing, Bucknell University, 1990.
• BS, Business Administration, Marketing, Bucknell University, 1988.

Faculty Research Interests

• Consumption and the sociohistorically embedded, embodied self. History of intellectual thought in Marketing. Consumption, design, and innovation. Understanding financial investing as a consumption phenomenon

Recent and Representative Publications

Allen, E. D., Greenhalgh, A., Nesteruk, J., (2024) Addressing Next Stage Capitalism Through the Myth of Pandora: From Individual and Genuine to Collective Hope. 205-223. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58064-2_10 Springer International Publishing.

Allen, E. D., Greenhalgh, A., Nesteruk, J., (2022) Insight and Sight: The Interplay Between the Humanities and Business and the Impact on Student Well Being. Oxford University Press.

Allen, E. D., Kedzior, R., (2016) From liberation to control: understanding the selfie experience. European Journal of Marketing. 50(9/10), 1893-1902. https://doi.org/10.1108/ejm-07-2015-0512

Allen, E. D., Kedzior, R., Schroeder, J., (2016) The selfie phenomenon – consumer identities in the social media marketplace. European Journal of Marketing. 50(9/10), 1767-1772. https://doi.org/10.1108/ejm-06-2016-0363

Allen, E. D., (2002) Toward a Theory of Consumer Choice as Sociohistorically Shaped Practical Experience: The Fits‐Like‐a‐Glove (FLAG) Framework. Journal of Consumer Research. 28(4), 515-532. https://doi.org/10.1086/338202

Recent Courses Taught

• MIDE 304, Marketing Management.
• MIDE 315, Advanced Topics in Markets, Innovation and Design (1 course credit).
• MIDE 300, Markets, Innovation & Design.

Awards and Honors

• Robert Ferber Award, Journal of Consumer Research, 1995
• College of Business 1994 Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, 1994