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Professor Jan Schumann

Professor Jan Hendrik Schumann

Professor Jan Hendrik Schumann has held the Chair of Marketing and Innovation of the University of Passau since 2012. He is one of the principal investigator of the DFG Research Training group 2720 and director of the Institute of Market and Economic Research since 2013. He has worked as a visiting academic at Boston College, Thunderbird School of Global Management, and at City University of Hong Kong. He is an area editor at the Journal of Service Research and a member of the editorial reviewer board of the Journal of Business Research as well as of Psychology and Marketing.

Professor Jan Hendrik Schumann has held the Chair of Marketing and Innovation of the University of Passau since 2012. He is one of the principal investigator of the DFG Research Training group 2720 and director of the Institute of Market and Economic Research since 2013. He has worked as a visiting academic at Boston College, Thunderbird School of Global Management, and at City University of Hong Kong. He is an area editor at the Journal of Service Research and a member of the editorial reviewer board of the Journal of Business Research as well as of Psychology and Marketing.

‘New, mostly data-based business models are increasingly tearing down the boundaries between consumers and businesses, thus engendering new forms of exchange relationships. While these types of complex added-value networks have an ever-growing economic importance, relatively little research has been done on consumers’ behaviour and experiences with these new business models. Research questions include the effects of so-called ‘secondary data use’, which describes the handing over of consumers’ data to by a company to third parties. Does this have a detrimental effect on consumers’ data-sharing behaviour and what psychological processes are driving this behaviour? The influencing factors exacerbating or mitigating this effect could be used to derive policy recommendations for companies, lawmakers and consumer organisations. To exchange ideas with colleages from across disciplines generates important leads and opens up new perspectives with which to tackle my research topic.’

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The main focuses of Prof. Schumann’s research are online marketing, the management of customer relationships and service pricing. His research papers have been accepted for publication by leading international journals, such as the Journal of Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Retailing, the Journal of Service Research and the Journal of Business Venturing. Furthermore, his research papers have repeatedly received commendations, for example as a finalist for the Journal of Service Research Best Article Award in 2010 and 2019, as a finalist for the Best IJRM Paper in 2016 and with the Rigor and Relevance Award 2017 from the Swiss Academy of Marketing Science. In 2012, he also received a grant from the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative. In 2019, Prof. Schumann won AMA SERVSIG’s prestigious Emerging Service Scholar Award.

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Research Stories

Interview mit Prof. Dr. Jan Schumann.

2024 will in many ways be an ambitious and eventful research year for the University of Passau. In the interview, Professor Schumann speaks about the highlights, challenges and the University's particular strengths in vying for the best minds.

Marketing researcher Janina Garbas focused on innovative technology-driven business models in her doctoral dissertation and was a finalist for two prestigious science awards.

Interdisziplinäres Organisations-Team der DPE Ringvorlesung an der Universität Passau

The Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems" will be the University’s pivotal hub for leading-edge, international, and interdisciplinary research and advanced academic qualifications around a central phenomenon of the digital economy.

Wirtschaftsinformatiker Philipp Sleziona und Marketingforscherin Alina Grüner; Foto: Studio Weichselbaumer

Affective reactions—or gut feelings—play a key role in consumer decision-making. Researchers at the University of Passau are seeking to understand this process better and help consumers make better decisions.

Professor Jan Schumann

'Well-known for presenting her research in a very accessible way': Professor Jan Schumann welcoming Professor Kelly Martin from Colorado State University College of Business.

Distinguished keynote series on 'Digital Platform Ecosystems' at the University of Passau

In the distinguished keynote series 'Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE)', internationally outstanding researchers have presented their latest findings.

Dr. Sebastian Schubach

Study on Google search ads: The young Passau researcher Dr. Sebastian Schubach is the only German to have made it into the top flight in the most important Europe-wide competition for the best PHD theses on marketing.

Professor Schumann about free digital services

Professor Jan Hendrik Schumann’s Chair for Marketing and Innovation has researched the success of free digital services in the publication ‘How Consumers Assess Free E-Services: The Role of Benefit-Inflation and Cost-Deflation Effects’.

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