Highlights

Selected MCM highlights can be found here.

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Successful IfM Project Seminar in Cooperation with BASF Coatings GmbH

This summer semester, the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM) was again able to offer students majoring in Marketing the opportunity to participate in a project seminar in cooperation with a renowned company. Together with this year's partner, BASF Coatings GmbH, a global leader in surface solutions, 24 students worked on five exciting and current topics related to "B2B Marketing Strategy @BASF Coatings".

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Participate in the MSc Program Development Event on Selling and Sales Management in Digitalized B2B Markets at Alba Business School in Athens, Greece

Dear Students,

We are thrilled to announce an upcoming event that marks a significant step towards shaping the future of sales education. As part of the CUSTMAS project (https://www.custmas.eu/), we are hosting a two-day event in Athens on Oct 2 and 3, 2024, dedicated to the development of a cutting-edge MSc Program focused on Selling and Sales Management in Digitalized B2B Markets.

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Sonja Gensler

JAMS Publication of the Chair of Value-based Marketing - Now Published!

Home sharing platforms have experienced a rapid growth over the last decade. Following negative publicity, many cities have started regulating the short-term rental market. Regulations often involve a cap on the number of days a property can be rented out on a short-term basis. We draw on rich data for short-term rentals on Airbnb and for the long-term rental market to examine the impact of short-term rental regulations with a day cap on various stakeholders: hosts, guests, the platform provider, and residents.

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Publication on Drivers of Direct Selling Performance – Now Available for Free!

Firms using a direct selling (DS) distribution channel delegate selling and sales management responsibilities to an independent-contractor distributor force. The DS firm’s inability to directly control distributors’ efforts, and the fact that most active distributors choose to work part-time rather than full-time at their DS business, makes an examination of the drivers of DS performance outcomes important for academic study and managerial insight.

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Sonja Gensler

IJRM Publication of the Chair of Value-based Marketing - Now Published!

In light of scarce resources, firms strategically weigh off between investments in value creation and value appropriation. They do so by placing more emphasis on one of the two strategic orientations which defines their strategic emphasis. So far, literature has relied on accounting data – specifically on reported investments in R&D and advertising – to operationalize reported strategic emphasis and studied its association with a firm’s financial performance. Previous studies suggest that firms benefit from emphasizing value appropriation.

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New IJRM Publication of the Chair of Marketing Management - Now Available in Print

Knowledge of a customer's willingness to pay (WTP) at early stages of product development is key to the success of innovations. However, since innovative products do not exist yet, only the hypothetical WTP can be surveyed, inducing a measurement bias. Unfortunately, little is known about the factors that induce this bias and how it differs depending on the method utilized in measuring WTP.

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Dissertation by Felix Lehmkuhle honored with Preis der Deutschen Marktforschung 2024

Dr. Felix Lehmkuhle, former research assistant at the Chair of Marketing Management (IfM), has been awarded the prestigious Preis der Deutschen Marktforschung 2024 for his dissertation. His research “Is New Always Better? The Future of Physical Stores" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Manfred Krafft.

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