Last year, Professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau from the Marketing Center Münster published his multiyear effort "Entertainment Science: Data Analytics and Practical Theory for Movies, Games, Books, and Music”, co-authored by Mark B. Houston, Professor of Marketing at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth) and Visiting International Professor at the University of Münster.

Der VHB hat in den letzten Monaten an einer Neuauflage des von Prof. Hennig-Thurau vor 1 ½ Jahrzehnten initiierten und bis einschliesslich der dritten Ausgabe gemeinsam mit Prof. Henrik Sattler (Univ. Hamburg) geleiteten Zeitschriften-Rankings JOURQUAL gearbeitet.

Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence and Social Media are currently revolutionizing the retail industry. At the EuroShop trade fair in Düsseldorf on February 18, leading representatives from research and business got together to discuss how recent developments in technology and society reshape the retail industry.

Prof. Anne T. Coughlan holds the Polk Brothers Chair in Retailing and has been Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston (USA) since 1985. Her research focuses on sales channels, sales management, compensation and pricing. She currently conducts research on topics such as multichannel management or measuring the compliance, monitoring and enforcement of MAP policies. From October 29 to November 6, Prof. Anne T. Coughlan was once again a guest at the Marketing Center Münster to work with Prof.

In ihrer gemeinsam mit der Unternehmensberatung Roland Berger herausgegebenen Studie „Quo Vadis, deutsche Medien?“ argumentieren Professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau und Ricarda Schauerte (Lehrstuhl für Marketing & Medien), dass sich die deutsche Fernsehlandschaft grundlegend wandeln wird.

As in previous years, a student of the Marketing Center Münster was awarded for an outstanding master thesis. Under the responsibility of Prof. Dr. Manfred Krafft and supervised by Jonas Schmidt, Vera Zanger dealt with the measurement of customers’ willingness to pay (WTP) in the context of innovations. Due to a solid theoretical basis, a thorough empirical analysis and the high practical relevance, the Professional Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) assessed the study as the best master thesis in 2019.