William G. Zikmund was Professor of Marketing at Oklahoma State University, USA. Before beginning his academic career, he worked in marketing research for Conway/Millikin Company (a marketing research supplier) and Remington Arms Company (an extensive user of marketing research). During his academic career, Professor Zikmund published many articles in a variety of scholarly journals, ranging from the Journal of Marketing and Accounting Review to the Journal of Applied Psychology. Professor Zikmund was a member of several professional organisations, including the American Marketing Association, the Academy of Marketing Science, the Association for Consumer Research, the Society for Marketing Advances, the Marketing Educators� Association and the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators. He served on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Marketing Education, Marketing Education Review, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and Journal of Business Research.
