Dr Amin Nazifi

Dr Amin Nazifi

Department of Marketing
Associate Professor in Marketing

Contact details

Address
Room 249, University House
Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TY

Amin is an Associate Professor in Marketing at Birmingham Business School, the University of Birmingham. Amin holds a PhD in Marketing from the University of Edinburgh. His primary research centres around services marketing (service failure and recovery, proactivity and service termination) and application of new technologies (such as Blockchain and AI). Amin’s research has appeared in some of the world leading business journals including Journal of Service Research, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Business Research and Annals of Tourism Research. He has also received a grant from Academy of Marketing for his research on gamification in a service recovery context.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Management, University of Edinburgh, 2017
  • MSc in International Business, ESCP Europe (Paris), 2011
  • MBA, Asian Institute of Technology, 2009
  • BEng in Industrial Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, 2006
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2019

Biography

I am an Associate Professor and Programme Director for MSc Marketing at Birmingham Business School (BBS). Before joining BBS in 2021, I was a Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde. I completed my PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where I investigated the consequences of unilateral termination of customer relationships.

My current research lies in the intersection of services marketing and new technologies and focuses on service failure and recovery, artificial intelligence, proactivity, and consumer well-being. My research has been published in leading service, marketing, and tourism journals, including Journal of Service Research, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, and International Journal of Hospitality Management, among others.

I am an Associate Editor at the Journal of Service Management and the Journal of Service Theory and Practice, and also serve on the Editorial Board of Journal of Services Marketing and regularly review articles for various journals such as Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, and International Journal of Consumer Studies.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have taught various courses in Marketing and Research Methods at both UG and PG levels. I also have solid experience in supervising honour’s, master’s, and doctoral students.

Before pursuing a career in academia, I worked for several years in a number of industries, including Financial Services, Non-profit, and Tourism in different countries across Asia and Europe.

Teaching

Research Methods

Marketing & New Technology

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Nazifi, A, Roschk, H, Marder, B & Leclercq, T 2025, 'Spinning the Wheel: The Effectiveness of Gamification in Service Recovery', Journal of Service Research, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/10946705241307681

Nazifi, A, Seyfi, S & Roschk, H 2025, 'The role of inferred motive in shaping tourists’ reactions to intentional failures', Current Issues in Tourism. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2025.2483815

Seyfi, S, Kim, MJ, Nazifi, A, Murdy, S & Vo-Thanh, T 2025, 'Understanding tourist barriers and personality influences in embracing generative AI for travel planning and decision-making', International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 126, 104105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104105

Gelbrich, K, Voigt, S & Nazifi, A 2023, 'Remedy management for product recalls in the automotive industry: How car dealers should time the repair and communicate its outcome', Journal of Business Research, vol. 167, 114173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114173

Nazifi, A, Roschk, H, Villarroel Ordenes, F & Marder, B 2022, 'Bad Intentions: Customers’ Negative Reactions to Intentional Failures and Mitigating Conditions', Journal of Travel Research, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 1808-1827. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875211044221

Nazifi, A, Murdy, S, Marder, B, Gäthke, J & Shabani, B 2021, 'A Bit(coin) of happiness after a failure: an empirical examination of the effectiveness of cryptocurrencies as an innovative recovery tool', Journal of Business Research, vol. 124, pp. 494-505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.11.012

Nazifi, A, Gelbrich, K, Grégoire, Y, Koch, S, El-Manstrly, D & Wirtz, J 2021, 'Proactive handling of flight overbooking: how to reduce negative eWOM and the costs of bumping customers', Journal of Service Research, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 206-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094670520933683

Raki, A, Nayer, D, Nazifi, A, Alexander, M & Seyfi, S 2021, 'Tourism recovery strategies during major crises: the role of proactivity', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 90, 103144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103144

Story, V, Zolkiewski, J, Verleye, K, Nazifi, A, Hannibal, C, Grimes, T & Abboud, L 2020, 'Stepping out of the shadows: supporting actors' strategies for managing end-user experiences in service ecosystems', Journal of Business Research, vol. 116, pp. 401-411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.04.029

Nazifi, A, El-Manstrly, D, Tregear, A & Auxtova, K 2020, 'The impact of termination severity on customers' emotional, attitudinal and behavioral reactions', Journal of Service Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTP-10-2019-0224

Chapter

Shabani, B, Tucker, H & Nazifi, A 2020, UNESCO's world heritage sites. in S Seyfi & CM Hall (eds), the interplay between international and local branding for the Gonbad-e Qābus brick tower, Iran. Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, pp. 187-201. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279065-12

Abstract

Nazifi, A & Roschk, H 2022, 'Spin it to win it! The Effectiveness of Gamification in Service Recovery', 12th AMA SERVSIG conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 16/06/22 - 18/06/22.

Nayer, D, Nazifi, A & Wilson, A 2021, 'Transformative sharing services at the base of the pyramid segment', 2021 Frontiers in Service Conference, Philadelphia, United States, 9/07/21 - 10/07/21.

Conference contribution

Nazifi, A 2023, The Dark Side of Technology: Financial Literacy and Consumer Well-being in the Fintech Era. in K Hu & JS Park (eds), Re-imagining service to enhance human life and society: QUIS18 Proceedings, VinUniversity, Hanoi June 20-23, 2023. VinUniversity, pp. 190-192, 18th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 20/06/23.

Paper

Nazifi, A, Roschk, H & Wilson, A 2020, 'Gamification and its role in service recovery: Frontiers in Service 2020'. <https://www.servsig.org/wordpress/2019/08/frontiers-in-service-2020/>

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