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Marketing Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Kentucky. Award winning researcher. 2023 Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow. I study brands as social agents with an emphasis on small and local brands. Go Big Blue.

I'm honored to have been nominated for the Gatton Doctoral Research Excellence Award and I'm excited to get to present some of my ideas. If you're in Lexington, come enjoy the lecture. If you're not, reach out to me and we can talk (especially if you want to work on new research together).

Michael Ryan Jenkins will present his research on how consumers perceive and engage with brands as social agents. His focal study, "The Entitative Effects of the And-Brand Name", draws on entitativity theory to explore how brands with an and-brand name (i.e. Barnes & Noble) are perceived as cohesive, interconnected groups leading to greater brand trust and brand preference. Michael connects this first paper with findings from his other research projects on brand embeddedness to argue that marketing should examine brands not only as social agents within consumer-brand relationships, but as social agents within broader internal and external structures of social relationships. RSVP today at https://lnkd.in/eebznNfr

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Donovan Gordon, MBA

Marketing Ph.D. Student | Biochemist and Molecular Biologist | Digital Marketing & Strategy

2mo

That's awesome Michael! Always love to see the great new things that you are pursuing!!

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Mitch Larson

Senior Consultant at Cortado Group

2mo

Congrats Michael! Amazing work.

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Della Clark, Ph.D.

Incoming Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Marketing at Illiniois State University College of Business

2mo

Way to go buddy!

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Brandon Holle

Marketing Professor - Digital, Strategy, Entertainment Products - Nashville, TN

2mo

Congrats! Interesting research!

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Todd Haderlie

Ph.D Candidate and Instructor of Digital Marketing

2mo

Awesome work!

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Ksenia Sergueeva

Marketing PhD Candidate (ABD) | Drexel University LeBow College of Business

2mo

Go, Michael!!

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Maddison Gleim

Striving to be the Best Version of Me | Makeup Artist @ Makeup by Maddison | Senior 2024 | BA Candidate @ UKY | BS Candidate @ UKY | American Marketing Association | Deans List |

2mo

Congrats!

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