Editors
- Series Editor
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- M. Joseph Sirgy
About the Editor
Richard J. Estes, Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, Philadelphia, A.B., La Salle University (Philadelphia); Master of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania; Doctor of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley; and post-master’s Certificate in Psychiatric Social Work, the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas. Dr. Estes specializes in international and comparative social welfare, social policy, and social development. His books include The Social Progress of Nations, 1984; Trends in World Social Development, 1988; Health Care and the Social Services,1984; Towards a Social Development Strategy for the Asia and Pacific Region (with Edward Van Roy), 1992; Social Development in Hong Kong: The Unfinished Agenda, 2005; The Medical, Legal and Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation (with Sharon Cooper and others), 2005, 2007; Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World, 2007; and, Islamic Social Progress: Social, Political, Economic, and Ideological Challenges (with Habib Tiliouine, University of Oran, Algeria), Dordrecht NL: Springer, in preparation 2015; Human Well-Being: The Untold History (with M. Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Tech), Dordrecht NL: Springer, in press (2015).
M. Joseph Sirgy is a management psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979) and the Virginia Tech Real Estate Professor of Marketing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has published extensively in the area of marketing, business ethics, and quality of life (QOL). He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) in 1995, served as its Executive Director/Treasurer from 1995 to 2011, and as Development Co-Director (2011-present). In 1998, he received the Distinguished Fellow Award from ISQOLS.
In 2003, ISQOLS honored him as the Distinguished QOL Researcher for research
excellence and a record of lifetime achievement in QOL research. He also served
as President of the Academy of Marketing Science (2002-04) from which he
received the Distinguished Fellow Award in the early 1990s and the Harold
Berkman Service Award in 2007 (lifetime achievement award for serving the
marketing professoriate). In the early 2000s, he helped co-found the
Macromarketing Society and the Community Indicators Consortium and has served
as a board member of these two professional associations. He co-founded the
journal, Applied Research in Quality of
Life, the official journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life
Studies, and has served as co-founding editor (2005-present). He
also served editor of the QOL section in the Journal of Macromarketing (1995-2016). He received the Virginia
Tech’s Pamplin Teaching Excellence Award/Holtzman Outstanding Educator Award
and University Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 2008. In 2010, ISQOLS
honored him for excellence and lifetime service to the society. In 2010 he won
the Best Paper Award in the Journal of
Happiness Studies for his theory of the balanced life; in 2011 he won the
Best Paper Award in the Journal of Travel
Research for his goal theory of leisure travel satisfaction. In 2012 he was
awarded the EuroMed Management Research Award for outstanding achievements and
groundbreaking contributions to well-being and quality-of-life research. In
2019 the Macromarketing Society honored him with the Robert W. Nason Award for
extraordinary and sustained contributions to the field of Macromarketing. He is currently serving as editor-in-chief of
the Journal of Macromarketing
(2020-present).