Valentyna Melnyk

Valentyna Melnyk (born 1978) is a New Zealand marketing academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University.

Academic career
After a 2005 PhD titled  'Creating effective loyalty programs knowing what (wo-)men want'  from Tilburg University, Melnyk moved to Massey University, rising to full professor.

Melnyk's work focuses on loyalty programs,    but she appears frequently in the press.

Selected works

 * Melnyk, Valentyna, Stijn MJ Van Osselaer, and Tammo HA Bijmolt. "Are women more loyal customers than men? Gender differences in loyalty to firms and individual service providers." Journal of Marketing 73, no. 4 (2009): 82–96.
 * Melnyk, Valentyna, Kristina Klein, and Franziska Völckner. "The double-edged sword of foreign brand names for companies from emerging countries." Journal of Marketing 76, no. 6 (2012): 21–37.
 * Melnyk, Valentyna, and Stijn MJ van Osselaer. "Make me special: Gender differences in consumers’ responses to loyalty programs." Marketing Letters 23, no. 3 (2012): 545-559.
 * Melnyk, Valentyna, and Tammo Bijmolt. "The effects of introducing and terminating loyalty programs." European Journal of Marketing 49, no. 3/4 (2015): 398–419.
 * Klein, Kristina, and Valentyna Melnyk. "Speaking to the mind or the heart: effects of matching hedonic versus utilitarian arguments and products." Marketing Letters 27, no. 1 (2016): 131–142.