Jean-Charles Chebat

Jean-Charles William Simon Chebath (January 13, 1945 – May 21, 2019) was a Canadian academic, professor, and marketing researcher. He held the ECSC Research Chair of Retailing at HEC Montréal.

Biography

Early life and education Jean-Charles William Simon Chebath was born January 13, 1945, in Algiers, Algeria. He read at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris in marketing from 1965 to 1968, earned an MBA in marketing from Laval University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Montréal in 1976. His dissertation was titled "Family decision making processes and social classes: a systemic approach".

Career

Chebat was on the board of several top journals, such as Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He was the Associate Editor of Perceptual and Motor Skills and Psychological Reports.

Marriage and children Chebat was married to Claire Gélinas-Chebat, a professor of linguistics at the Université du Québec. The couple has three children: Daniel-Robert, Ph.D. in neuroscience, Associate Professor at Ariel University in Israel, Myriam, MA in social work and Elise, MS in marketing.

Published works Marketing Management co-edited with Stanley Shapiro (Harper & Row, 1974) Strategie du Marketing: Concepts et Modeles with G. M. Henault, (PUQ, 1977) Gestion des Services with Pierre Filiatrault and Jean Harvey (McGraw-Hill, 1999) Comportement du Consommateur with Pierre Filiatrault, Michel Laroche, et al. (Gaetan-Morin, 2003)

He has published about 150 refereed journal articles (Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, Environment & Behavior, Journal of Social Psychology), as many conference papers, and ten book chapters.

Awards 1991: Rousseau/IBM Award for best interdisciplinary researcher, ACFAS 1994: Stephen J. Shaw Award, Southern Marketing Conference; first non-American recipient of this award 1996: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1997: Pierre-Laurin-Award for the Best Researcher of the Year at HEC 1997: Distinguished Scholar of the Society for Marketing Advances 2001: Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2001: Fellow of the American Psychological Association 2003: Fellow of the Society for Marketing Advances 2003: Pierre-Laurin-Award for the Best Researcher of the Year at HEC 2004: Knight of the National Order of Quebec 2005: Sir John William Dawson Medal