The article "Permission Marketing and Privacy Concerns — Why Do Customers (Not) Grant Permissions?" by Manfred Krafft, co-authored by Christine M. Arden (University of Muenster) and Peter C. Verhoef (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) is now available online at Journal of Interactive Marketing. The article is an open access paper, and can be downloaded and shared for free using this link.
The article "The Showrooming Phenomenon: It's More than Just About Price" by Dr. Sonja Gensler together with Prof. Peter Verhoef (Universität Groningen, Netherlands) and Prof. Scott Neslin (Dartmouth Business School, USA) is now available at Journal of Interactive Marketing. Direct link to the article.
The Marketing Center Muenster announces their recognition by the Sales Education Foundation (SEF) as a “Top Universities for Professional Sales Education” program in their 2017 ANNUAL magazine. SEF recognizes the Marketing Center Muenster for preparing students for successful careers in professional selling and helping to elevate the sales profession. The SEF 2017 ANNUAL magazine, their 10th edition, will be available on their website, www.salesfoundation.org, by the end of April.
Dr. Sonja Gensler ist zusammen mit Alec Minnema und Tammo Bijmolt (Universität Groningen) für den Wissenschaftspreis 2017 der niederländischen Marktforschungsvereinigung MOA (Zentrum für Informationen basierte Entscheidungsfindung & Marketing Research) nominiert. Die Nominierung bezieht sich auf die Forschungsprojekte rund um das Thema wie Online-Händler die Retourenquote reduzieren können.
Muenster’s marketing academics enjoyed a fully packed week of hard work and hard fun with “multivariate legend” Professor Dr. Joe F. Hair, who not only taught students on the intricacies of both structural equation modeling, but also gave interesting insights by reflecting on his long and successful academic career. Although Professor Hair could not fully hide his enthusiasm for partial least squares, he covered also the covariance-based approach of structural equation modeling in his course.
Together with Michael Haenlein, Professor of Marketing at the business school ESCP Europe, Thorsten Hennig-Thurau were invited to co-chair a two-day workshop on “Word of Mouth and Social Media Marketing in the Digital Era” at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. The event, in which ten doctoral students and professors presented their work in the field and got feedback from the audience and the co-chairs, was organized by Professor Dr.
In recognition of his significant and enduring contributions to the European Marketing Academy (EMAC) and his achievements of high levels of scholarship and as a leader in the field of marketing, Manfred Krafft has been appointed as EMAC fellow. Together with him, Ajay Kohli (Atlanta/USA, previous editor of Journal of Marketing) and Peter Verhoef (Groningen, VP Membership of EMAC) have been appointed as new fellows of EMAC. EMAC represents more than 1,000 European scholars in Marketing. The board of fellows consists of 17 recognized scholars, who stay fellows until their retirement.
The prestigious American Marketing Association holds the annual Summer AMA conference 2017 in San Francisco, California. For this distinguished conference, Dr. An-Kristin Kupfer serves as chair for the “Digital Marketing, Social Media, and Entertainment Marketing” track, together with Professor Dr. Natasha Foutz from the University of Virginia.
Von Februar bis März wird die IfM-Mitarbeiterin Mirja Bues einen Forschungsaufenthalt am Marketing Department der Business School der University of Auckland verbringen. An diesem Marketing Department, das zu den führenden in der Asien-PazifikRegion zählt, forscht auch Professor Krafft seit Januar für ein halbes Semester.
Professor Thorsten Wiesel und Dr. Sonja Gensler werden im Februar und März 2017 einen Forschungsaufenthalt an der IESE Business School in Barcelona – einer der Top-Business Schools der Welt – verbringen.