Hieu Nguyen
Email: hnguye47@csulb.edu
Dr. Hieu P. Nguyen is an assistant professor of marketing at CSULB. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Nguyen was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. His non-academic experience includes various positions in general trading, public relations, marketing communications, radio, and client services.
Teaching Interests: Principles of Marketing, Marketing Strategy Management, Consumer Behaviors.
Research Interests: Emotional attachment to brands, the influence of attachment orientations on consumer behaviors, gift-giving, and anti-consumption.
Education
- Ph D, University of Texas, Arlington, 2006
Major: Marketing - MBA, Texas Christian University at Fort Worth, 2001
Major: Marketing - BA, Hanoi Foreign Studies University at Hanoi, 1996
Major: English - Management in Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo, 1996
Major: Comparative Industrial System Analysis
Past Experience
- Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach (2007 - Present)
- Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Arlington (2006 - 2007)
- Account Manager-Client Services, e-Telequest, Inc, Texas (2001 - 2002)
- Marketing Intern, Texas New Mexico Power, Texas (2000 - 2000)
- DJ - MTV Most Wanted, 100 FM MHz- The Voice of Vietnam Radio, Vietnam (1998 - 1999)
- Marketing Communications Officer, Ericsson-Hanoi Office, Vietnam (1998 - 1999)
- Co-Founder and Chief Media Officer, Vietnam Media Watch, Vietnam (1997 - 1998)
- Sales Representative, Tomen Corporation-Hanoi Office, Vietnam (1996 - 1997)
Research and Scholarly Activities
Conference Proceeding- "Falling in Love with Brands: An Inductive Qualitative Exploration of Pathways to Emotional Attachment" (2009), Advances in Consumer Research.
- "Information Value and Influence of Price on Perception: Insights from Cue Utilization Theory" (2009), AMA Summer Educators' Conference Proceedings.
- "The Effects of Syntactic Structure on Consumers' Memory for Print Advertisements" (2008), AMA Winter Educators' Conference Proceedings.
- "The Effects of Regulatory Focus on Gift Giving Behaviors" (2007), AMA Winter Educators' Conference Proceedings.
- "Gift Giving Behaviors: Views from an Attachment Perspective " (2006), Advances in Consumer Research.
- "The Ratings Game: A Framework of Investigating Factors Influencing Consumers" (2006), American Marketing Association Winter Educator's Conference .
- "Emotional Attachment to Brands: The Construction of a Scale" (2005), Academy of Marketing Science Conference Proceedings.
- "Mood Scales: Where is the Arousal Dimension?" (2005), Society for Marketing Advances Conference.
- "Negative Mood and Risk Taking Tendency: The Effects of Attachment Style" (2005), Advances in Consumer Research.
- "The Effects of Message Structure Variations on Consumer's Recall and Attitudes" (2005), Society of Marketing Advances Conference.
- "Uniform Assessment of the Benefits of Service Learning: The Development, Evaluation and Implementation of the SELEB Scale" (2006), Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice.


