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Chair of Digital Marketing –

Our digital art is data smart.

About us

The Chair of Digital Marketing investigates questions concerning digitalization of our everyday lives. Collaborating with leading companies in the digital sector, we strive to foster exchange between research and practice.

We provide expertise in the following areas:
- Preference measurement for digital goods using, e.g., choice-based conjoint or discrete choice experiments (Demo)
- Customer management and actionable customer analytics for better targeting
- Online marketing for NGOs.

Are you a company looking to join forces for a project, particularly on questions concerning digitalization? Are you a student at the end of your master and are you interested in writing your PhD on business related and scientific highly relevant research questions? Please contact Professor Christian Schlereth directly here.

News and stories

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The Chair of Digital Marketing is looking for a Research Assistant / Doctoral Student (m/f/d) at WHU Campus Vallendar.

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Prof. Dr. Christian Schlereth on the challenges of using AI in business

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The Chair of Digital Marketing was represented with research projects at the European Marketing Academy Conference (EMAC) 2023.

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Prof. Dr. Christian Schlereth leads WHU Master Course in Israel

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The article appeared in the February 2023 special issue on Sustainable Consumption

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On March 28, March 29 and April 4, Christian Vögle, Martin Janzen and Marco Ries attended the BSc course 'Foundations of Marketing' taught by Prof. Schlereth

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Findings on the effectiveness of sustainability endorsements in advertising

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Our team

Professor
Christian Schlereth

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Dörthe Barlach

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Roman Antoschin

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Sven Beisecker

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Manuel Weber

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External members

Béatrice Martin

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Christina Reh

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Our alumni

Dr. Simon Stolz

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Dr. Sebastian Hein

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Dr. Joséphine Kreische

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Theses

Important information about theses.

The Chair of Digital Marketing offers a wide range of topics around digitalization and supervisory capacity for Bachelor and Master Theses - contact us for details. Part of the courses and theses requires the use of  XML editors. Licenses are kindly sponsored by Liquid Technologies with their software solution Liquid XML Studio. When writing your thesis, the following template is a helpful guide and contains additional information.

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Publications

Practical, relevant, and innovative –
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Have we caught your attention? Do you want to take a deeper look at pre-print versions of the publications listed below? Many of these can be downloaded via ResearchGate.

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Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Systems
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”: Examining Employees Preferences and Job Satisfaction in Agile Transformation

Fischer, Mareike / Heinz, Matthias / Schlereth, Christian / Rosenkranz, Christoph (2023)

Proceedings of the 45th Marketing Science Conference
Coupons on Online and Offline Purchase Behaviour

Reh, Christina / Schlereth, Christian / Lambrecht, Anja (2023)

Proceedings of the 45th Marketing Science Conference
Using In-Store Analytics to Bridge the Purchase Intention and Behavior Gap at the Point of Sale

Ulrichshofer, Anna / Jungbluth, Michael / Schlereth, Christian (2023)

Proceedings of the 52th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Odense, Denmark
The Effectiveness of Sustainable Marketing Messages: Trading Off Sustainability and Conventional Product Attributes

Schnabel, Lukas / Martin, Beatrice / Reh, Christina / Schlereth, Christian / Schmitz, Anna-Karina (2023)

Proceedings of the 52th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Odense, Denmark
Ethical and Effective Fundraising Communication – an Oxymoron?

Antoschin, Roman / Schlereth, Christian / Eckert, Christine / Erlebach, Hannah (2023)

Proceedings of the 52th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Odense, Denmark
Incentivizing User Input for Data Enrichment

Beisecker, Sven / Schlereth, Christian (2023)

Proceedings of the 52th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Odense, Denmark
Coupons on Online and Offline Purchase Behaviour

Reh, Christina / Schlereth, Christian / Lambrecht, Anja (2023)

Proceedings of the 52th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Odense, Denmark
Using In-Store Analytics to Bridge the Purchase Intention and Behavior Gap at the Point of Sale

Ulrichshofer, Anna / Jungbluth, Michael / Schlereth, Christian (2023)

Proceedings of the 52th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Odense, Denmark
Managing Social Media P2P Fundraising

Schlereth, Christian / Martin, Beatrice / Skiera, Bernd (2023)

Proceedings of the 52th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Odense, Denmark
Text vs. Speech Analysis – Detecting Sentiment of Customer Calls

Weber, Manuel / Schlereth, Christian (2023)

Proceedings of the 51th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Budapest, Hungary
Integrating Brand Equity in MMM for a Long-term Ad Effectiveness Measurement

Reh, Christina / Fichtner, Konstanze / Schlereth, Christian / Müller-Klockmann, Torsten / Weber, Manuel (2022)

Proceedings of the 50th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Madrid, Spain
How did the COVID-19 crisis change the social media peer-to-peer fundraising landscape?

Martin, Béatrice / Schlereth, Christian (2021) - Online

Proceedings of the 50th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Madrid, Spain
Social Capital Accumulation in Career Networks

Weiler, Michael / Stolz, Simon / Lanz, Andreas / Schlereth, Christian / Hinz, Oliver (2021) - Online

Proceedings of the 50th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Madrid, Spain
Threshold Determination Using Extensions of Best-Worst Scaling

Beisecker, Sven / Schlereth, Christian / Eggers, Felix (2021) - Online

Proceedings of the 50th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Madrid, Spain
How did the COVID-19 crisis change the social media peer-to-peer fundraising landscape?

Martin, Béatrice / Schlereth, Christian (2021) - Online

Proceedings of the 50th Conference of the European Marketing Academy, Madrid, Spain
Effectiveness of Online-only Coupons on Online and Offline Channels

Reh, Christina Antonie / Schlereth, Christian (2021) - Online

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Digital knowledge

Digital Marketing in motion –
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Research, interviews, and teaching.

Take a look at videos from the different areas the Chair is involved in: research, teaching, and interviews with key figures within the field of Digital Marketing, including student club WHU Inside Business.

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Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung awards scholarships to students and graduates with exceptional academic achievements and outstanding political or social commitment. Since 2016 Professor Christian Schlereth has held the position of liaison lecturer of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation and supervises the Koblenz group of BSc, MSc, and Doctoral program scholarship students.

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Contact

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Dörthe Barlach

Personal Assistant
+49 (0)261 6509 456
doerthe.barlach(at)whu.edu

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Chair of Digital Marketing
Burgplatz 2
56179 Vallendar

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