Thought leaders and emerging scholars from around the world gathered at the University of Missouri for an enriching two days of collaborative learning and innovation. The inaugural Marketing Strategy Consortium brought together 44 fellows representing six countries, as well as doctoral faculty and researchers from leading universities from across North America and Europe.
Dr. Sonja Gensler ist gemeinsam mit ihren Ko-Autoren Prof. Scott Neslin (Dartmouth) und Prof. Peter Verhoef (Groningen) für ihren Artikel „The Showrooming Phenomenon: It’s More than Just About Price“ mit dem Best Paper Award der Zeitschrift Journal of Interactive Marketing ausgezeichnet worden. Die Preisverleihung fand im Rahmen der Interactive Marketing Research Conference am 24. März 2018 in Amsterdam statt.
Journal of Retailing article runner-up for the 2018 Davidson award for the best paper published in the Journal of Retailing in 2016.
The article “To Keep or Not to Keep: Effects of Online Customer Reviews on Product Returns” by Prof. Thorsten Wiesel, Dr. Sonja Gensler, Alec Minnema (Ordina), Tammo H.A. Bijmolt (University Groningen) had been nominated for the Davidson award for the best paper published in the Journal of Retailing. The article finally is the second-place winner.
MCM scholars Ann-Kristin Kupfer, Nora Pähler vor der Holte, and Thorsten Hennig-Thurau –together with co-author Raoul V. Kübler (Ozyegin University)— analyze how powerful the social media activities of an actor can be for the economic success of a movie. By studying more than 40,000 Facebook posts, the authors estimate substantial increases in product sales. Having coded those posts into different content and style categories, they identify which social media communication strategies are the most promising for promoting products online.
Dr. Mirja Kroschke wird mit dem Förderpreis Handel der Wolfgang Wirichs Stiftung für ihr Dissertationsprojekt „Mobile Werbung im stationären Handel – Eine empirische Analyse zum Personalisierungs-Paradoxon" ausgezeichnet. Der mit 2.000 Euro dotierte Förderpreis gehört in Deutschland zu den bedeutendsten im Bereich des Handels.
On February 1st, Anne Coughlan visiting from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University held a Brown Bag Seminar for doctoral students of the MCM and gave interesting insight into her joint project with Manfred Krafft and Julian Allendorf “High Flyers: An MOA Analysis of Top-Performing Direct-Selling Distributors”.
Anne T. Coughlan holds the Polk Brothers Chair in Retailing, and is a Professor of Marketing, at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
The next episode of our new video format MCM Spotlight is "live"! In more or less (but rather more) 100 seconds, our interview partners share their fresh perspectives with a large audience of marketing students, scholars, and managers.
MCM scholars Ann-Kristin Kupfer and Thorsten Hennig-Thurau –together with co-authors Mark Houston (Texas Christian University) and Martin Spann (LMU Munich)—have published a new article on pre-release consumer buzz in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. The authors explore what we all mean when we say "This movie has a lot of buzz!", offering a look at the concept's core. They employ a theories-in-use approach to conceptualize this important construct and use secondary data to illustrate the performance of the theory-based conceptualization.
The German Research Foundation DFG has extended its substantial funding of the research group "How Social Media Changes Marketing" for three more years. It consists of renowned scholars from the University of Hamburg (Henrik Sattler, Michel Clement, and Mark Heitmann), the University of Cologne (Fanziska Völckner and Detlef Schoder), and the Kühne Logistics University (Sönke Albers and Christian Barrot), in addition to Münster’s marketing experts Professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau and Dr. Ann-Kristin Kupfer.