Krishnan Jeesha

Krishnan Jeesha is currently Assistant Professor in the department of Marketing Management, at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L). He completed his PhD from IIM Kozhikode. Prior to joining IIM Lucknow he was a faculty at IIM Visakhapatnam and Amrita School of Business. He has five years of industry experience in companies such as TATA Motors, Infosys and Open Quadrant Marketing (a company he had co-founded).

He has published journal articles in European Journal of Marketing, AMS Review, Journal of Prediction Markets and IIM Kozhikode Society and Management review. He has also published teaching cases with IVEY Publishing and Asian Journal of Management Cases.

Krishnan's research interests are in the areas of online review management, webcare, branding and brand equity, online word of mouth and broadly in the digital marketing domain

Current Research Interests :

• Online review management, webcare, branding and brand equity, online word of mouth and broadly in the digital marketing domain

Referred Journals :

• Jeesha, K. and Purani, K. (2021), "Webcare as a signal: exhaustive-selective webcare strategy and brand evaluation", European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 55 No. 7, pp. 1930-1953. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-05-2019-0421
• Purani, K., & Jeesha, K. (2021). Community based brand equity as brand culture: advancing brand equity conceptualization for a connected world. AMS Review, 1-19.
• Sumod, S. D., Premkumar, P., Jeesha, K., & Chowdhury, S. (2021). Is There a Method to Madness? Predicting Success of Bollywood Movies. The Journal of Prediction Markets, 15(2).

Cases

• Purani, K., & Jeesha, K. (2020). Capital Budgeting: Maledia Broadcasting Ltd. Asian Journal of Management Cases, 17(2), 241-256.
• Purani, K., & Jeesha, K. (2017). Impex Kitchen Appliances: Evaluating the "Reader's Offer". Ivey ID: 9B17A010. London, Canada: Ivey Publishing.

Conference Proceedings :

• Jeesha, K., & Purani K. (2018). Webcare and Brand Evaluations: Optimizing Webcare Strategies for Service Brands. In 2018 AMA Summer Academic Conference proceedings (Vol. 29, pp. 175-176). Chicago: American Marketing Association
• Jeesha, K., & Purani, K. (2017, June). Conceptualizing and Measuring Community-Based Brand Equity: An Abstract. In Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress (pp. 161-161). Springer, Cham.
• Pradeep, K., Sumod, S. D., & Jeesha, K. (2016). “Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana- A stakeholder Perspective”, paper presented at Fourth Pan IIM Conference, IIM Ahmedabad, Gujarat. 13th – 15th Dec 2016
• Jeesha, K. (2016). “A Repurchase Intention Model in a Multilevel Loyalty Program”, paper presented at 10th Great Lakes NASMEI International Marketing Conference, Great Lakes, Chennai. 23rd – 24th Dec 2016
• Jeesha, K., & Thomas, J. (2016) “Guilt as an advertising and promotional tool”, International Conference on Marketing Technology and Society (MARCONF16), IIM Kozhikode, Kerala. 29th Sept – 1st Oct 2016

Teaching

• Marketing Management
• Strategic Brand Management
• Business Research Methods
• Marketing in a Digital World

Education

• PhD: IIM Kozhikode
• MBA: BIM, Trichy
• B.Tech: Mar Baselios College of Engineering, Trivandrum (University of Kerala)

Awards & Honours

• Sethuraman-NASMEI Award (2018) for one of the best three research proposals in the country for doctoral students (including a research funding of ₹ 75000).