Professor Geoff Soutar, Director CSC Ltd
Winthrop Professor Geoffrey Soutar graduated in economics from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and undertook doctoral training at Cornell University before returning to teach at the UWA, from 1973 to 1986. He was Foundation Professor of Management at Curtin University of Technology from 1986 to 1994 and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Public Management at Edith Cowan University from 1994 until 1999.
He was also Director of the Graduate School of Management at UWA from 2000 until 2007 and Head of the Marketing Discipline Group at UWA from 2008 to 2016. W/Prof Soutar was a member of the ARC's College of Experts from 2001 to 2004 (the first business academic to have this role) and a member of the ARC's ERA Research Evaluation Committee for Economics and Commerce in 2012 and 2015.
W/Prof. Soutar has been a consultant to a large number of private and public sector organisations in Australia and internationally and has been active in research across a wide area, publishing more than 200 research papers in journals and in book chapters, as well as a number of research monographs, across a wide range of management and marketing areas and presenting more than 300 papers at seminars and conferences.
His present research interests include cross-cultural decision-making, new product and service development and the marketing of services, especially educational and tourism services. He has a particular interest in service quality and its impact on organisational success, from which evolved a long-term study of consumption value and its impact on people's willingness to buy and their subsequent satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
Phone: +618 6488 7885Email: geoff.soutar@uwa.edu.au
He was also Director of the Graduate School of Management at UWA from 2000 until 2007 and Head of the Marketing Discipline Group at UWA from 2008 to 2016. W/Prof Soutar was a member of the ARC's College of Experts from 2001 to 2004 (the first business academic to have this role) and a member of the ARC's ERA Research Evaluation Committee for Economics and Commerce in 2012 and 2015.
W/Prof. Soutar has been a consultant to a large number of private and public sector organisations in Australia and internationally and has been active in research across a wide area, publishing more than 200 research papers in journals and in book chapters, as well as a number of research monographs, across a wide range of management and marketing areas and presenting more than 300 papers at seminars and conferences.
His present research interests include cross-cultural decision-making, new product and service development and the marketing of services, especially educational and tourism services. He has a particular interest in service quality and its impact on organisational success, from which evolved a long-term study of consumption value and its impact on people's willingness to buy and their subsequent satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
Phone: +618 6488 7885Email: geoff.soutar@uwa.edu.au