Marketing and Digital Services

Marketing and Digital Services

Prof. Dr. Gouthier

The research group of Marketing and Digital Services, headed by Prof. Dr. Matthias Gouthier, pursues an interdisciplinary research approach to the study of services marketing issues, incorporating findings from a wide range of disciplines, such as computer science, psychology and sociology. In the sense of a transdisciplinary approach, there is also an intensive exchange with businesses interested in service problems and with political (or policy-related) organizations and institutions.

From a research perspective, the research group is primarily dedicated to the four research fields of "service/digital customer," "service employees," " digitalization," and "value creation systems" in order to ensure the top performance of service companies and service units of production companies in the sense of a service excellence approach. Special emphasis is placed on the application of behavioral science approaches.



Research

Our research focuses in particular on service excellence, customer delight, customer experience management, digital services, digital customer behavior, service productivity, employee delight and pride. In addition, service research especially thrives on the lively exchange between research and business. In order to generate lighthouse projects not only for academia but also as a reference for practitioners, innovative research projects are carried out with renowned service companies and participation in publicly funded collaborative projects is sought. Finally, the research group offers research-led and problem-solving-oriented teaching in the field of marketing and digital services. This step is achieved by integrating the latest research findings into teaching as quickly as possible, while at the same time maintaining a strong application-oriented teaching concept. Accordingly, relevant practitioners as well as renowned researchers are integrated into the courses. In addition, great importance is attached to the integration of case studies and the solution of real business problems. The Center for Service Excellence (CSE) is closely linked to the above-mentioned activities of the working group. The CSE is a focal point that unites the various players from research, business and politics and supports and promotes them in questions of service excellence. In order to facilitate an intensive exchange between science and business in the sense of a transdisciplinary research approach, the CSE organizes the Excellence-in-Service conference series EXIS, which was held for the first time in Koblenz in 2014.


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Universität Koblenz | FB4: Informatik
Institut für Management FG Marketing und digitale Services
Postfach 201 602
56016 Koblenz

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Universität Koblenz
FG Marketing und digitale Services (IfM) - Gebäude A
Universitätsstraße 1
56070 Koblenz