Courtney Nations Azzari

Faculty Member, Associate Professor

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About

In her research, Dr. Courtney Azzari has focused primarily on issues related to Services Marketing and Transformative Consumer Research. Her work seeks to better understand how individuals consume services to enhance personal and environmental well-being during transformational ritual experiences. Specifically, her work has explored the process of individual-level ritual change and the manifestation of this process for service providers and related consumption activities, by focusing on consumers who selected sustainable alternative burial services. Dr. Azzari also researches issues of consumer vulnerability and social justice. Overall, she seeks to understand how service providers can positively influence meaningful life experiences in ways that are inclusive, co-creative, responsive, and considerate of well-being issues.

Expertise

Consumer Behavior, Consumer Vulnerability, Consumption and Rituals, Services Marketing, Sustainability and Marketing, Transformative Consumer Research

Related documents

Education/Academic qualification

Marketing, PhD, University of Wyoming

20122016

Marketing, PhD, University of Wyoming

… → 2016

Marketing, MS, Clemson University

20102011

Marketing, MS, Clemson University

… → 2011

Marketing, BS, Clemson University

20072010

Marketing, BS, Clemson University

… → 2010

External positions

Graduate Assistant, University of Wyoming

Aug 1 2012May 1 2016

Adjunct Professor, Anderson University - South Carolina

Aug 1 2011Aug 1 2012

Graduate Assistant, Clemson University

Aug 1 2010Aug 1 2011

Disciplines

  • Business
  • Marketing