She has published three books on the Rise of the Sharing Economy (2018), Uber (2020), Understanding Collaborative Consumption (2024), and co-authored a text book on Marketing and Sustainability (2024).
She is the 2013 Highly Commended Award Winner for the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for her 2012 European Journal of Marketing article “Does Rhetoric Impact Advertising Effectiveness with Liking Controlled?
Dr. Albinsson has been invited as Keynote or guest speaker at Alliance University, India (virtual), Brunel University, UK at the Collaborative Consumption Seminar, at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia (virtual), at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (another partner university), University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and at the University of the Pacific, California.
Dr. Albinsson is an Associate Editor for Journal of Global Scholars in Marketing Science and serves on the Editorial Review Board for Journal of Consumer Marketing and Marketing Education Review and regularly serves as ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Business and Society, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Marketing Theory, and many international, national and regional conference proceedings.
She has served as Guest editor for Marketing Education Review’s Teaching Innovations Issue, Sustainability’s Special issue on Consumer Culture Discourse and Sustainability, and Frontiers of Psychology’s Special issue on “Can the Sharing Economy Contribute to Wellbeing? Exploring the Impact of the Sharing Economy on Individual and Collective Wellbeing.” She is currently guest editing a special issue for International Journal of Advertising and one on Sharing Services Systems and Collaborative Consumption for Journal of Consumer Marketing.
Pia served as Secretary for Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) 2015-2018, program chair and president-elect 2018-2019, and president 2019-2020. She served as Chair of the SMA Board of Governors (2020-2022) and is currently a board member. This year (2025), she is co-chairing the SMA Doctoral Consortium for the third year. She also served as Co-program chair for the 2020 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS).
Dr. Albinsson is the recipient of the 2021 SMA Distinguished Fellow Award and she received the 2016 China Studies Institute Zhi-Xing China Academic Leaders Fellowship sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), China, June 5-June 24, 2016. She was a fellow for the Society for Marketing Advances Doctoral Consortium in St. Petersburg, FL (2008) and AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium in Atlanta, GA (2009).
