In a dynamic assembly at  Alba Graduate Business School in Athens, over 20 students and 10 faculty members from esteemed institutions, including the University of Twente, Technische Universität Graz, Kozminski University, and the University of Münster, converged to innovate a post-graduate program focused on B2B sales and customer management.

Also this year the academic family “SALTY“ of professor Sönke Albers (KLU) met to discuss the latest developments in Marketing.

Dear Students,

We are thrilled to announce an upcoming event that marks a significant step towards shaping the future of sales education. As part of the CUSTMAS project (https://www.custmas.eu/), we are hosting a two-day event in Athens on Oct 2 and 3, 2024, dedicated to the development of a cutting-edge MSc Program focused on Selling and Sales Management in Digitalized B2B Markets.

Home sharing platforms have experienced a rapid growth over the last decade. Following negative publicity, many cities have started regulating the short-term rental market. Regulations often involve a cap on the number of days a property can be rented out on a short-term basis. We draw on rich data for short-term rentals on Airbnb and for the long-term rental market to examine the impact of short-term rental regulations with a day cap on various stakeholders: hosts, guests, the platform provider, and residents.

In light of scarce resources, firms strategically weigh off between investments in value creation and value appropriation. They do so by placing more emphasis on one of the two strategic orientations which defines their strategic emphasis. So far, literature has relied on accounting data – specifically on reported investments in R&D and advertising – to operationalize reported strategic emphasis and studied its association with a firm’s financial performance. Previous studies suggest that firms benefit from emphasizing value appropriation.

Knowledge of a customer's willingness to pay (WTP) at early stages of product development is key to the success of innovations. However, since innovative products do not exist yet, only the hypothetical WTP can be surveyed, inducing a measurement bias. Unfortunately, little is known about the factors that induce this bias and how it differs depending on the method utilized in measuring WTP.