Call for nominations: Lifetime Achievement Award for 2009

This is to solicit nominees for the Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by the Marketing & Society SIG. The award is to acknowledge outstanding contributions in the field of Marketing & Society. A winner will be honored at the Summer AMA conference August 7-10, 2009 in Chicago, IL where the winner will be introduced and speak during the Marketing & Society SIG reception.

Winners should have contributed a significant body of work in developing and advancing research in the Marketing & Society, Public Policy, and/or Marketing Ethics areas. This award will be given to an individual who exemplifies outstanding work in this area. The first winner of this award was Alan Andreasen and he was honored at the Summer AMA meeting in San Diego in 2008.

Nominations should include a defense of why the potential recipient is deserving of this award, a copy of their vita, and references that support this nominee (minimum of 3). The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2009. Please submit nominations to: Linda Ferrell, University of New Mexico, LFerrell@mgt.unm.edu (electronic submissions are encouraged). A committee from the Marketing & Society SIG leadership will determine the Lifetime Achievement Award winner.