Faculty Profile

Dr. Janet Wagner
Associate Chair of Marketing & Associate Professor

Ph.D., Kansas State University

Robert H. Smith School of Business
3463 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-2126
Fax: (301) 405-0146
E-mail: jwagner@rhsmith.umd.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Janet Wagner

Joined University of Maryland in 1983.

Professor Wagner’s research and teaching focus on services marketing and survey research methods. Her most recent research is on how service firms in both online and offline environments build relationships with their customers. Of particular interest is how firms build customer loyalty, through customer satisfaction, trust, and value. Professor Wagner’s research has been published in the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Retailing, the Journal of Service Research, and the Journal of Consumer Affairs. Professor Wagner is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Service Research and Journal of Retailing. Her honors and awards include the Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence; Excellence Awards from the Smith M.B.A. Consulting Program; the Reviewer of the Year for the Journal of Consumer Research; Finalist for the Best Services Article, 2003 American Marketing Association Services Special Interest Group; Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Maryland; Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland; and Honorable Mention in the Journal of Consumer Research’s Ferber Award competition.

Professor Wagner has consulted on service marketing and customer service for clients such as IBM, AOL, Hughes Network Systems, Sunrise Senior Living, Marriott, Consumer Value Partners (CVP), and Johnson & Johnson. She has conducted service-oriented executive education programs, both off line and online, for Cornell University’s Information Technology Services, the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan, CAME of Peru, the CIA, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and Lockheed Martin.

Selected Honors & Awards

  • Finalist, Excellence in Service Research Award, 2004
  • Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence
  • Excellence Award from the Smith M.B.A. Consulting Program
  • Reviewer of the Year for the Journal of Consumer Research
  • Honorable mention in the Ferber Award competition

Selected Journal Articles

Smith, A.K., R. Bolton, and J. Wagner, (1999), “A Model of Customer Satisfaction with Service Encounters Involving Failure and Recovery,” Journal of Marketing Research, September, 356-372.

Garner, T. and J. Wagner, (1991), “Economic Dimensions of Household Gift-Giving,” Journal of Consumer Research, 18, December, 368-379.

*Wagner, J. and S. Hanna, (1983), “The Effectiveness of Family Life Cycle Variables in Consumer Expenditure Research,” Journal of Consumer Research, 10, December, 281-291.

*Honorable Mention, Ferber Award Competition for best paper based on a doctoral dissertation in consumer behavior.

Editorships

  • Editorial Review Boards: Journal of Retailing and Journal of Service Research