Pecotich, Anthony 1945-

PERSONAL:

Born August 5, 1945; married; children: two. Education: Western Australian Institute of Technology, A.I.T. (with distinction), 1973; University of Wisconsin—Madison, M.Sc., 1974, Ph.D., 1979.

ADDRESSES:

Home—East Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia. Office—University of Western Australia Business School, School of Economics and Commerce, Mail Bag 261, 35 Stirling Hwy., Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia; fax: 61-8-6488-1055. E-mail—tpecotic@biz.uwa.edu.au.

CAREER:

Academic. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, lecturer, 1977-79; Western Australian Institute of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia, lecturer, 1980-83, senior lecturer, 1983-86; University of Western Australia, Crawley, senior lecturer, 1986-94, associate professor of information management and marketing, 1994—, department head, 1999. Visiting professor or research fellow at University of Zagreb, 1989, 1995, 1996, 2000, Trinity College University of Dublin, 1989, Marquette University, 1989, University of Innsbruck, 1995, University College Dublin, 1996, Yunnan Institute of Finance and Trade, 1998, University of New South Wales, 2000, University of Split, 2004, 2006-07. Military service: Served in Australian Army.

MEMBER:

Academy of Management, Academy of Marketing Science, American Marketing Association, American Statistical Association, Association for Marketing and Development, Association for Consumer Research, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy, European Marketing Academy.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Reviewer of the year, Australasian Marketing Journal, 2002; Charles C. Slater Memorial award, Journal of Macromarketing, 2003; recipient of numerous grants.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Clifford J. Shultz II) Handbook of Markets and Economies: East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, foreword by John O'Shaughnessy, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2006.

Contributor to periodicals and journals, including Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Akron Business and Economic Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Australian Marketing Researcher, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Journal of Global Marketing, Hong Kong Journal of Business Management, Journal of Applies Social Psychology, Business Horizons, New Zealand Journal of Business, Jurnal Manajemen Prasetiya Mulya, and Human Resource Management Australia. Editorial board member of Trziŝte, Australasian Marketing Journal, and Journal of Macromarketing.

SIDELIGHTS:

Anthony Pecotich is an Australian academic. Born August 5, 1945, Pecotich married and eventually had two children. He completed an associate in information technology degree with distinction from Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University of Technology) in 1973. At this point he moved to the United States to pursue his graduate studies. He completed a master of science degree from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1974 and followed this with finishing a Ph.D. in 1979 from the same university.

While a doctoral student in Madison, Pecotich began lecturing at the nearby University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 1977. Upon graduation, he returned to Australia and lectured at his alma mater, Western Australian Institute of Technology, receiving a promotion to senior lecturer in 1983. In 1986 he moved to the University of Western Australia as a senior lecturer. In 1994 he was made an associate professor and served as head of the department of information management and marketing in 1999. Pecotich served as a visiting professor or research fellow at a number of universities across the world. In Australia he served at the University of New South Wales in 2000; in the United States, he served at Marquette University in 1989; and in China at the Yunnan Institute of Finance and Trade, 1998. He has also visited a number of universities in Europe, including the University of Zagreb in 1989, 1995, 1996, and 2000; Trinity College at the University of Dublin in 1989; the University of Innsbruck in 1995; University College Dublin in 1996 and the University of Split in 2004 and from 2006 to 2007.

Pecotich has contributed to a number of academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Akron Business and Economic Review, Asia Pacific Journal ofManagement, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Australian Marketing Researcher, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Journal of Global Marketing, Hong Kong Journal of Business Management, Journal of Applies Social Psychology, Business Horizons, New Zealand Journal of Business, Jurnal Manajemen Prasetiya Mulya, and Human Resource Management Australia. In addition to his contribution, Pecotich serves as an editorial board member of Trziŝte, Australasian Marketing Journal, and the Journal of Macromarketing.

In 2006 Pecotich published his first book, Handbook of Markets and Economies: East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand. Edited with Clifford J. Shultz II and with a foreword by John O'Shaughnessy, the book gives case studies for Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, in showing how those countries are responding to and will react to the changing markets, economies, and consumer behavior. The book describes what resources are available to each country, its political economy, national wealth and economic system, its performance, physical location, and a number of other factors.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, June, 2006, W.C. Struning, review of Handbook of Markets and Economies: East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, p. 1870.

Reference & Research Book News, May, 2006, review of Handbook of Markets and Economies.