The International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM), Europe’s leading marketing journal and one of Marketing academia’s rare “A journals,” annually honors a single paper as the best article published in the previous year. This year’s winner was co-authored by MCM scholars Nele Hansen, Dr. Ann-Kristin Kupfer, and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau. The prestigious award honors their article “Brand Crises in the Digital Age: The Short- and Long-term Effects of Social Media Firestorms on Consumers and Brands”, which appeared in last year’s December issue of the IJRM.

A meta-analysis on willingness to pay measurement by Jonas Schmidt (IfM) and Tammo H. A. Bijmolt (University of Groningen) is accepted for publication at the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS). By analyzing 115 effect sizes published in 47 papers, the authors show that direct methods for measuring consumers’ willingness to pay outperform indirect ones in terms of accuracy.

Professor Kübler published a study on how a country’s culture and socio-economic background influences consumers’ price- and electronic word of mouth sensitivities in the prestigious Journal of Marketing, which is considered to be the leading academic marketing journal.

Prof. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Marketing & Medien am Marketing Center Münster. Gemeinsam mit Prof. Mark B. Houston von der Texas Christian University in Fort Worth hat Prof. Hennig-Thurau das Buch „Entertainment Science. Data Analytics and Practical Theory for Movies, Games, Books, and Music“ verfasst, dass sich mit den Faktoren auseinandergesetzt, die über den Erfolg und Misserfolg von Entertainmentprodukten entscheiden.

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The article “Understanding the quality–quantity conundrum of customer referral programs: effects of contribution margin, extraversion, and opinion leadership” which Manfred Krafft has co-authored with Vijay Viswanathan, Sebastian Tillmanns and Daniel Asselmann has been published by the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.