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Christian Homburg

Christian Homburg

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Business and Management
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
95
Citations
47517
World Ranking
67
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2021 - Fellow of the American Marketing Association

Overview

Christian Homburg is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Business, Management and Accounting, with 108 publications in this field. Within this broad area, the main subfields of study include Marketing, Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Sociology and Political Science.

The topics most frequently covered in their work are diverse, including Corporate Governance and Management, Digital Innovation in Industries, Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Business Strategy and Innovation, and Marketing and Advertising Strategies.

The following recent papers illustrate the range and focus of their academic contributions:

  • "Digital business capability: its impact on firm and customer performance" (2021), published in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • "The value relevance of digital marketing capabilities to firm performance" (2022), published in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • "Marketing Excellence: Nature, Measurement, and Investor Valuations" (2020), published in Journal of Marketing
  • "Virtual Reality in New Product Development: Insights from Prelaunch Sales Forecasting for Durables" (2021), published in Journal of Marketing
  • "Tolerating and Managing Failure: An Organizational Perspective on Customer Reacquisition Management" (2020), published in Journal of Marketing

Their frequent co-authors include Robin-Christopher M. Ruhnau, Sebastian Hohenberg, Dominik M. Wielgos, Arnd Vomberg, and Aline Isabelle Lanzrath, reflecting collaboration across multiple studies.

Christian Homburg has published extensively in various academic journals, with a strong presence in:

  • Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • Journal of Marketing
  • Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management
  • Global Fashion Management Conference
  • Journal of Marketing Research

In recognition of contributions to the field, Christian Homburg was named Fellow of the American Marketing Association in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Applications of structural equation modeling in marketing and consumer research: A review

    Hans Baumgartner;Christian Homburg

  • Marketingmanagement : Strategie, Instrumente, Umsetzung, Unternehmensführung

    Christian Homburg;Harley Krohmer

  • A Multiple-Layer Model of Market-Oriented Organizational Culture: Measurement Issues and Performance Outcomes

    Christian Homburg;Christian Pflesser

  • Personal characteristics as moderators of the relationship between customer satisfaction and loyalty—an empirical analysis

    Christian Homburg;Annette Giering

  • Do Satisfied Customers Really Pay More? A Study of the Relationship Between Customer Satisfaction and Willingness to Pay

    Christian Homburg;Nicole Koschate;Wayne D. Hoyer

  • Buyer-Supplier Relationships and Customer Firm Costs

    Joseph P. Cannon;Christian Homburg

  • Customer experience management: toward implementing an evolving marketing concept

    Christian Homburg;Danijel Jozić;Christina Kuehnl

  • Beurteilung von Kausalmodellen. Bestandsaufnahme und Anwendungsempfehlungen

    Christian Homburg;Hans Baumgartner

  • Does Customer Interaction Enhance New Product Success

    Kjell E Gruner;Christian Homburg

  • Social Identity and the Service-Profit Chain

    Christian Homburg;Jan Wieseke;Wayne D. Hoyer

  • Der Zusammenhang zwischen Kundenzufriedenheit und Kundenbindung

    Christian Homburg;Annette Giering;Frederike Hentschel

  • How Organizational Complaint Handling Drives Customer Loyalty: An Analysis of the Mechanistic and the Organic Approach

    Christian Homburg;Andreas Fürst

  • Kundennähe von Industriegüterunternehmen : Konzeption - Erfolgsauswirkungen - Determinanten

    Christian Homburg

  • Service Orientation of a Retailer’s Business Strategy: Dimensions, Antecedents, and Performance Outcomes

    Christian Homburg;Wayne D. Hoyer;Martin Fassnacht

  • Neglected Outcomes of Customer Satisfaction

    Xueming Luo;Christian Homburg

  • The link between salespeople’s job satisfaction and customer satisfaction in a business-to-business context: A dyadic analysis

    Christian Homburg;Ruth M. Stock

  • Marketing's Influence within the Firm

    Christian Homburg;John P. Workman;Harley Krohmer

  • The Role of Cognition and Affect in the Formation of Customer Satisfaction: A Dynamic Perspective

    Christian Homburg;Nicole Koschate;Wayne D . Hoyer

  • Fundamental Changes in Marketing Organization: The Movement Toward a Customer-Focused Organizational Structure

    Christian Homburg;John P. Workman;Ove Jensen

  • A Configurational Perspective on Key Account Management

    Christian Homburg;John P. Workman;Ove Jensen

  • Handbook of Market Research

    Christian Homburg;Martin Klarmann;Arnd Vomberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne D. Hoyer
Wayne D. Hoyer The University of Texas at Austin
Xueming Luo
Xueming Luo Temple University
Andreas Herrmann
Andreas Herrmann RWTH Aachen University
Thomas S. Robertson
Thomas S. Robertson University of Pennsylvania
Jens B. Schmitt
Jens B. Schmitt Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Hans Baumgartner
Hans Baumgartner Pennsylvania State University
Amy L. Ostrom
Amy L. Ostrom Arizona State University
Deborah J. MacInnis
Deborah J. MacInnis University of Southern California
Nick Lee
Nick Lee University of Warwick
Scott B. MacKenzie
Scott B. MacKenzie Indiana University

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