From August 2 to August 9, 2022, Professor Manfred Krafft and Michael Gerke visited Professor Anne Coughlan in San Francisco to work with her on a joint research project. In the research project, the three co-authors focus on performance factors in direct selling.

From June 24^th to June 25^th, the Chair of Marketing and Dialogue Marketing represented by Prof. Kay Peters from the University of Hamburg, invited to this year’s Siegfried Vögele Institute (SVI) doctoral colloquium. The colloquium is a yearly get-together of selected marketing chairs aiming to offer doctoral students the opportunity to present and discuss their research. Due to COVID-19 it had been two years since the colloquium was held in presence.

Digital technologies are rapidly changing the way businesses operate. There is an increasing demand for partially or fully digital products and services; companies interact with customers and supply chain partners through digital channels; internal processes and operations such as production or manufacturing or office management also rely on digital technologies.