Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
- Woke Branding
- Brand Activism
- Brand Purpose
- Brand Health
- Brand Experience
Biography
Dr Abas Mirzaei is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Macquarie Business School. His area of expertise is branding, woke marketing, and brand activism. His work has been published in academic journals such as Journal of Brand Management, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Advertising Research, and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. His recent work on ‘woke’ branding has been received well, and appeared in The Conversation (read by more than 110,000 readers), Inside Retail, Inside FMCG, SBS, NITV, ABC News, BBC Radio, SMH, Marketing Magazine, Mumbrella, AdNews,Medium, and many others. Abas is a recipient of the best branding paper award from Australian and New Zealand Academy of Marketing Conference. Abas’s course “Visionary leadership, identity & motivation: Become a meaning maker” has attracted more than 15000 learners on Coursera. He has introduced a long-term oriented marketing performance metric, Brand Health Index (BHI), and Behavioral Brand Evaluation Typology, and also Advertising Spending Diets.
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Enhancing the student experience: Towards a typology of student engagement and partnership in online vs offline delivery
Bowden, J., Mirzaei, A. & Tickle, L.
1/04/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Teaching
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Predicting Winning Opportunities: Application of Predictive Modelling to Security Opportunities
Winzar, H., Mirzaei, A. & Siuki, H.
27/02/17 → 30/11/17
Project: Research
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Woke brand activism authenticity or the lack of it
Mirzaei, A., Wilkie, D. C. & Siuki, H., Feb 2022, In: Journal of Business Research. 139, p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Consumer engagement within retail communication channels: an examination of online brand communities and digital content marketing initiatives
Bowden, J. & Mirzaei, A., 11 May 2021, In: European Journal of Marketing. 55, 5, p. 1411-1439 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
12 Citations (Scopus) -
Exploring brand purpose dimensions for non-profit organizations
Mirzaei, A., Webster, C. M. & Siuki, H., Mar 2021, In: Journal of Brand Management. 28, 2, p. 186-198 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Assessing Ad-spend patterns to predict brand health: A model for advertisers to determine future advertising-budgeting strategies
Mirzaei, A., Gray, D., Baumann, C. & Johnson, L. W., 1 Jun 2016, In: Journal of Advertising Research. 56, 2, p. 169-182 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Brand associations in the higher education sector: The difference between shared and owned associations
Mirzaei, A., Siuki, E., Gray, D. & Johnson, L. W., 1 Jul 2016, In: Journal of Brand Management. 23, 4, p. 419-438 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
8 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
Activities
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The DNA of Healthy Brands in Education Industry: What Is Their Perceived Brand Image
Abas Mirzaei (Speaker)
17 Jun 2015 → 20 Jun 2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Examining the impact of brand equity on customer equity
Abas Mirzaei (Speaker)
Jun 2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Developing an objective customer-market measure of brand equity with a longitudinal perspective
Abas Mirzaei (Speaker)
Dec 2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press / Media
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Coon’s rebranding dilemma: polishing a brand name to stay out of controversy
27/11/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Heavy-handed threats’: ‘Scare campaign’ could backfire on Facebook and Google in Australia
2/09/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Virtuous or virtue signalling? How brands should handle social issues
17/08/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Cancel culture or offensive marketing? Brands from Coon to Coco Pops accused of racial insensitivity
17/06/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Impacts
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Woke Marketing and Its Impact on The Society
Abas Mirzaei (Participant)
Impact: Society impacts, Culture impacts