Research program

Questions before citations.

A program in consumer based marketing strategy, connecting firm initiated action to downstream consumer, stakeholder, market, and societal outcomes.

Job market paper

Can nuance make advocacy more credible?

A research story about message complexity, credibility, and value-misaligned consumers.

Muhammad presenting Nuanced Advocacy

Under review at IJRM

Can being cool protect a brand in crisis?

A multi-study program connecting brand meaning, cultural belief, and product-harm response.

Brand coolness research presentation

Dissertation Essay 1

What happens when firms take sides?

A mechanism-based framework for support, backlash, and indifference.

Dissertation proposal slide

The broader portfolio

The same expertise travels into adjacent questions.

Collaborations extend the program into firm strategy, artificial intelligence, religion in the marketplace, and theory use in sales research.

With Nahin Faisal

Trade secrets and corporate activism

Using WRDS data to examine whether firms' strategic protection of knowledge relates to engagement in corporate sociopolitical activism.

With Md Rashedul Islam

AI receptivity and sustainable marketing

Six nationally representative datasets connecting environmental engagement with consumer receptivity to AI across generations and nations.

With collaborators

Religion in the marketplace

Synthesizing more than 100 studies to clarify how religion shapes marketing phenomena and where the literature should go next.

Team project

Theory in sales research

More than 300 studies coded to understand how sales scholars use theory and how future research can build cumulatively.

The formal record.

Publications, collaborators, venues, and status.