Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

M. Joseph Sirgy (https://sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/joe-sirgy-personal-website/) is a management psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979), the Virginia Tech Real Estate Professor Emeritus of Marketing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA), and an Extraordinary Professor at the WorkWell Research Unit at North West University—Potchefstroom Campus (South Africa).

He has published extensively in the area of business administration, business ethics, and quality of life (QOL). He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) in 1995, served as its Executive Director/Treasurer from 1995 to 2011, and as a development Co-Director (2011–present). In 1998, he received the Distinguished Fellow Award from ISQOLS. In 2003, ISQOLS honored him as the Distinguished QOL Researcher for research excellence and a record of lifetime achievement in QOL research. He also served as a President of the Academy of Marketing Science (2002–2004) from which he received the Distinguished Fellow Award in the early 1990s and the Harold Berkman Service Award in 2007 (lifetime achievement award for serving the marketing professoriate). In the early 2000s, he helped co-found the Macromarketing Society and the Community Indicators Consortium and has served as a board member of these two professional associations. He co-founded the journal, Applied Research in Quality of Life, the official journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, in 2005; and he has served as a co-founding
editor (1995–present). He also served as an editor of the QOL section in the Journal of Macromarketing (1995–2016). He received the Virginia Tech’s Pamplin Teaching Excellence Award/Holtzman Outstanding Educator Award and University Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 2008.

In 2010, ISQOLS honored him for excellence and lifetime service to the society. In 2010, he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Happiness Studies for his theory of the balanced life; in 2011, he won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Travel Research for his goal theory of leisure travel satisfaction. In 2012, he was awarded the EuroMed Management Research Award for outstanding achievements and groundbreaking contributions to well-being and quality of-life research. In 2019, the Macromarketing Society honored him with the Robert W. Nason Award for extraordinary and sustained contributions to the field of Macromarketing. He is currently serving as an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Macromarketing (2020–present).

He also was the editor of ISQOLS/Springer book series on International Handbooks in QOL (2008–2015), Community QOL Indicators: Best Cases (2004–2015), Applied Research in QOL: Best Practices (2008–2012). He is currently the co-editor of Springer book series on Human Well-Being and Policy Making (2015–present).

His recent books include:
-Shultz II, Clifford J., Don R. Rahtz, and M. Joseph Sirgy (Eds.) (2022). Community, Economy, and COVID-19: Lessons from Multi-Country Analyses of a Global Pandemic. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

• Sirgy, M. Joseph (2022). The Balanced Life: Using Strategies from Behavioral Science to Enhance Wellbeing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Sirgy, M. Joseph (2021). The Psychology of Quality of Life: Wellbeing and
  Positive Mental Health. 3rd edition. Dordrecht: Springer.

• Sirgy, M. Joseph (2020). Positive Balance: A Theory of Well-Being and Positive Mental Health. Dordrecht: Springer Publishing.

• Sirgy, M. Joseph, Richard J. Estes, El-Sayed El-Aswad, and Don R. Rahtz
  (2019). Combatting Jihadist Terrorism through Nation Building: A Quality-of-Life Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Publishing.

• Estes, Richard J. and M. Joseph Sirgy (2018). Advances in Well-Being: Toward a Better World. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

• Uysal, Muzaffer, Stefan Kruger, and M. Joseph Sirgy (Eds.) (2018). Managing Quality of Life in Tourism and Hospitality: Best Practices. Oxfordshire, UK: CABI Publishers.

• Estes, Richard J. and M. Joseph Sirgy (Eds.) (2017). The Pursuit of Well-being: The Untold Global History. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Publishing.

• Sirgy, M. Joseph, Rhonda Phillips, and Don Rahtz (Eds.) (2013). Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VI. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Publishing.

• Sirgy, M. Joseph (2012). The Psychology of Quality of Life: Hedonic Wellbeing, Life Satisfaction, and Eudaimonia. 2nd edition. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Publishing.

• Reilly, Nora P., M. Joseph Sirgy, and C. Allen Gorman (Eds.) (2012). Work and Quality of Life: Ethical Practices in Organizations. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Publishing.

• Uysal, Muzaffer, Richard Perdue, and M. Joseph Sirgy (Eds.) (2012). Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research: Enhancing the Lives of Tourists and Residents. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Publishing.

• Land, Kenneth C., Alex C. Michalos, and M. Joseph Sirgy (Eds.) (2012).
  Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Research. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Publishing.

In relation to community indicators research, the author has been involved in community indicators research for many years. He has authored many publications in this area. He was also a co-editor of Springer’s book series on Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases (2004–2015) with professors Rhonda Phillips (Purdue University) and Don Rahtz (College of William & Mary). He has been an instructor of the Community Indicators Research Certification Program (a certification program of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, ISQOLS; https://isqols.org/Certification) for many years, and he wrote the training manual for the program. The book is based on this training manual. Finally, he has been involved as a member of a taskforce of a regional community indicators project in Southwest Virginia: The New Century Council.