
Research
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Services Marketing (AI & service robots, organizational frontlines)
Transformative Consumer Research (prosocial & sustainable behaviors)
MAIN REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Services Marketing
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Khoa T. Do (2025), “Generative AI in service research: promise or peril?,” The Service Industries Journal.
Khoa T. Do and Kimmy W. Chan (2023), “Being Alone or Together: How Frontline Anthropomorphized Robots Affect Solo (vs. Joint) Service Consumption,” Journal of Service Research.
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Invited for paper development workshop at Journal of Consumer Research
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Media coverage: RHUL News, Tech Xplore
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Khoa T. Do, Huy Gip, Priyanko Guchait, and Chen-Ya Wang (2022), “Competition or Collaboration: A Critical Reflection on Future Cobotics in Hospitality,” International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.
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Khoa T. Do, Huy Gip, Priyanko Guchait, Chen-Ya Wang, and Eliane Sam Baaklini (2022), “Empathetic Creativity for Frontline Employees in the Age of Service Robots: Conceptualization and Scale Development,” Journal of Service Management.
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Huy Gip, Khoa T. Do, Priyanko Guchait, Fernandez Garcia, and Ayşın PaÅŸamehmetoÄŸlu (2022), “Employee Mindfulness and Creativity: When Emotions and National Culture Matter,” The Service Industries Journal.
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Transformative Consumer Research
Mandeep Mahendru, Gagan Deep Sharma, Nisreen Ameen, Khoa, T. Do, Vijay Perierae, and Kamlesh Singh (2025), “Beyond Traditional Metrics: Developing and Validating a Multi-Dimensional Scale for Consumer Financial Well-Being,” Psychology & Marketing.​​
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​Khoa T. Do, Chen-Ya Wang, and Priyanko Guchait (2021), “When Normative Framing Saves Mr. Nature: Role of Consumer Efficacy in Pro-Environmental Adoption,” Psychology & Marketing.
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Best Paper Award in Consumer Behavior Track at 2020 SMA Annual Conference
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Media coverage: UH News, Science X, AZo (top 5% of all outputs scored by Altmetric)​​​​

SELECTED WORKS IN PROGRESS
Services Marketing
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Khoa T. Do and Kimmy W. Chan, “Topic Area: Language Used by Intelligent Virtual Agents,” (Dissertation essay, invited for resubmission at Journal of Marketing)
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Invited for Paper Development Workshop at International Journal of Research in Marketing
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2023 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Awards (Honorable Mention)
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Khoa T. Do, Woody Kim, and Michael Brady, “Topic Area: Political Orientation and Adventure Services,” (invited for second round at Journal of Service Research)
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Nisreen Ameen, Vera Hoelscher, Jacky Cheah, and Tippayanet Sorosrungruang, Khoa T. Do, and Senmao Xia, “Topic Area: Responsible AI for Ethnic Minority Patients in Health Services,” (under review at European Journal of Information Systems)​​​
Khoa T. Do, Kimmy W. Chan, and Choi Sze Lok, “Topic Area: Minority Frontline Employees and Solo Services,” (data collection completed, to be submitted to Journal of Marketing by end of 2025)
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Winner of 2025 AMA Organizational Frontlines Young Scholar Research Competition​​​​​​​​​​