Lori Rothenberg

Dr. Lori Rothenberg is an Associate Professor in the department of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management within the Wilson College of Textiles. She joined the department in the Fall of 2015.

Dr. Rothenberg originally joined NC State University in 2007 as a member of the Zeis Textile Extension Education for Economic Development (ZTE) center, where she provided analytical training and consulting to the textile, apparel, and affiliated industries. Lori rose to serve as the Director of ZTE, before joining the faculty. Under her leadership, ZTE grew its outreach through expanded custom analytics offerings, hosted national and international conferences, and a strong infrastructure.

Prior to joining NC State University, Lori worked for SAS, the world’s largest independent vendor in the business intelligence software and services market. Over the course of her career at SAS, she was a statistical trainer, a training program manager, a higher education consultant and the SAS Global Certification program manager.

Dr. Rothenberg has provided analytical training and consulting to a variety of industries including textiles, apparel, healthcare, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, semiconductor and financial, as well as to government agencies.

Dr. Rothenberg’s awards and honors include the Ted Eschenbach Best EMJ Journal Paper Award for 2013 with co-authors Drs. McCreery and Lukasz Mazur, Outstanding Extension Service Award (NC State University), Certificate of Appreciation from the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Outstanding Teaching Award (Wayne State University), and the Phi Delta Kappa Research Award.

Research

Data Mining and Big Data Analytics for Economic Competitiveness, Sustainability, and Consumer Behavior

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D. Educational Psychology (Major: Quantitative Analysis, Minor: Human Development and Learning), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991
• B.S. Education (Major: Elementary Education — Science, Minor: Elementary Education — Mathematics), Wayne State University, 1986

Publications

Revealed comparative advantage for US textiles and apparel

Saki, Z., Moore, M., Kandilov, I., Rothenberg, L., & Godfrey, A. B. (2019), COMPETITIVENESS REVIEW, 29(4), 462–478. https://doi.org/10.1108/CR-03-2018-0025

The impact of mass customization on fashion-innovative students: an assessment of need for uniqueness, self-identity, and perceived performance risk

Matthews, D., Rothenberg, L., & Gopalakrishnan, S. (2019), International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/17543266.2019.1601263

An assessment of the relationships between attitudes toward patriotism, environmentalism, and the purchase of organic apparel in U.S. consumers

Wang, M., Rothenberg, L., & Matthews, D. (2018, June). , . Paper presented at the American Worldwide Marketing Congress, Porto, Portugal.

An exploration of mass customization antecedents: the role of fashion consciousness

Matthews, D., & Rothenberg, L. (2018, June). , . Paper presented at the 2018 American Marketing Association/American Collegiate Retail Association Triennial Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Business attire fashion or appropriateness, what should marketers emphasize?

Law, E., & Rothenberg, L. (2018, June). , Paper presented at the American Worldwide Marketing Congress, Porto, Portugal.

Contingency factors and reshoring drivers in the textile and apparel industry

Moore, M. E., Rothenberg, L., & Moser, H. (2018), Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 29(6), 1025–1041. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmtm-07-2017-0150

Forecasting U.S. textile Comparative Advantage using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average models and time series outlier analysis

Saki, Z., Rothenberg, L., Moore, M., Kandilov, I., & Godfrey, A. (2018, July). , . Paper presented at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Impact of quality management practices on change readiness due to new quality implementation

Uluskan, M., McCreery, J., & Rothenberg, L. (2018), International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, 9(3), 351–373. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijlss-05-2017-0049

Insights into reshoring from big data visualization of social media posts

Moore, M. E., & Rothenberg, L. (2018, May). , . Abstract presented at the 2018 Symposium on Data Science & Statistics, Reston, VA.

Reshoring manufacturing in the textile and apparel industry

Moore, M. E., Rothenberg, L., & Moser, H. (2018), Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 29(6), 1025–1041.

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Organizations

• American Marketing Association
• American Statistical Association
• International Textile and Apparel Association

Teaching

• - Global Textile and Apparel Business Dynamics ,
• - The Textile Industry ,
• - Global Trade and Sourcing ,
• - Marketing Research ,
• - Survey Design and Analysis ,
• - Logistic Regression ,
• - Design of Experiments ,
• - Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt, and Yellow Belt ,