From April 28 to May 10, Prof. Krafft and his research assistant and doctoral student Theresa Steinebach visited Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The purpose of this research journey was to meet their research partner Anne Coughlan from Kellogg School of Management, who is an expert in direct selling, channel management and sales force management among others.

Dr. Ann-Kristin Kupfer and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau have been selected as recipients of the prestigious Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award, which honors the best article published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, one of marketing’s A journals. The MCM scholars win this year’s Sheth award for their article “Pre-Release Consumer Buzz”, which they have co-authored with WWU’s Visiting International Prof. Dr. Mark B. Houston (Texas Christian University, Texas) and Prof. Dr. Martin Spann from LMU Munich. For Prof.

Im Zuge der Digitalisierung sehen sich Unternehmen aus der Entertainmentbranche mit diversen Herausforderungen bei der Konzeption und Vermarktung ihrer Produkte konfrontiert. Dies betrifft damit auch die Herstellung und den Vertrieb von Filminhalten. Im Rahmen einer neuen Forschungskooperation unter dem Titel „Movie Success Lab“ wollen die Weltkino Filmverleih GmbH aus Leipzig und das Marketing Center Münster gemeinsam dem aktuellen Umbruch in der Kino- und Filmlandschaft begegnen.

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.