Nikhilesh Dholakia has also worked at University of Illinois at Chicago, Kansas State University, Indian Institutes of Management at Ahmedabad and Kolkata, XLRI-India, Northwestern University's Kellogg School, Chuo University in Japan, Arizona State University West, Norwegian Institute for Market Research, University of South Denmark, University of Christchurch in New Zealand, and Helsinki School of Economics and Business.

Dr. Dholakia's research and consulting activities deal with technology, innovation, infrastructure issues, market processes, and consumer culture. He has published widely in the fields of Marketing, E-Commerce, M-Commerce, Consumer Culture, and International Business. Among his books are New Infotainment Technologies in the Home: Demand-Side Perspectives (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996), Consuming People: From Political Economy to Theaters of Consumption (Routledge, 1998), Worldwide E-Commerce and Online Marketing: Watching the Evolution (Quorum, 2002), and M-commerce: Global Experiences and Perspectives (Idea Group, 2006).

Dr. Dholakia has won the Charles Slater award for the Journal of Macromarketing. He has also chaired doctoral dissertations that have won the MSI/Clayton and ACR/Sheth Foundation awards. Dr. Dholakia holds a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), and a Ph.D. from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.