Business School research
The Business School focuses on quantitative and empirical research. Researchers typically use real world (big) data and data science approaches to solve important management problems.
It was third in Germany in the Wirtschaftswoche Ranking 2024, the most important national ranking for business research, and sixth in the overall ranking in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Key research areas
Research in the key areas is interdisciplinary, is conducted in collaboration with practice, and focuses on important areas for society and the economy. Each area is associated with a research center and aligned with City of Hamburg clusters.
Research centers
Disciplinary groups
The Business School has 29 professors across eight disciplinary groups, as well as two cross-disciplinary professorships.
Recent top publications
Recent articles in leading journals in the Financial Times Research Rank list
- Consumers are gaining the right to repair - are you ready? J. Recker, G. Kane, MIT Sloan Management Review. 2025
- Financing decentralized digital platform growth - The role of crypto funds in blockchain-based startups. D. Cumming, W. Drobetz, P. P. Momtaz, N. Schermann, Journal of Business Venturing. 2025
- Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement. F. von Briel, P. Davidsson, J. Recker, Academy of Management Review. 2025
- Three Questions to Ask About Your Digital Strategy. Tarakci, M., Sting, F. J., Recker, J., Kane, G. C., MIT Sloan Management Review. 2024
- Do foreign institutional shareholders affect international debt contracting? Evidence from Yankee bond covenants. Brockman, P., Drobetz, W., El Ghoul, S., Guedhami, O., Zheng, Y., Journal of International Business Studies. 2024
- Cause-Related Marketing as Sales Promotion. Schamp, C., Heitmann, M., Peers, Y., Leeflang, P. S.H., Journal of Marketing Research (JMR). 2024
- Estimating Stock Market Betas via Machine Learning, Drobetz, W., Hollstein, F., Otto, T., Prokopczuk, M., Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 2024
- Rejoinder on “Frontiers - The Interplay of User-Generated Content, Content Industry Revenues, and Platform Regulation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from YouTube”. Wlömert, N., Papies, D., Clement, M., Spann, M., Marketing Science. 2024
- Creating and Capturing Value with Physical-Digital Experiential Consumer Offerings. Lorenz, J., Chandra-Kruse, L., Recker, J., Journal of Management Information Systems. 2024
- iRepair or I Repair? A Dialectical Process Analysis of Control Enactment in the iPhone Repair Aftermarket. Recker, J., Zeiss, R., Müller, M., MIS Quarterly. 2024
- Performance Implications of Digital Disruption in Strategic Competition. Sting, F., Tarakci, M., Recker, J., MIS Quarterly, 2024
- Marvelous advertising returns? A meta-analysis of advertising elasticities in the entertainment industry. Burmester-Hofmann, A., Clement, M., Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 2023
- Offset or reduce: how should firms implement carbon footprint reduction initiatives? Roemer, N., Voigt, G., Production and Operations Management. 2023
- Environmental change, strategic entrepreneurial action, and success. Recker, J., Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 2023
- Consequences of platforms' remuneration models for digital content: initial evidence and a research agenda for streaming services. Clement, M., Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 2023
- Exclusivity strategies for digital products across digital and physical markets. Seifert, R., Otten, C., Clement, M., Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 2023
- Foreign institutional investors, legal origin, and corporate greenhouse gas emissions disclosure. Döring, S., Drobetz, W., Schröder, H. Journal of Business Ethics. 2023
- The effectiveness of cause-related marketing: a meta-analysis on consumer responses. Schamp, C., Heitmann, M., Bijmolt, H., Katzenstein, R., Journal of Marketing Research. 2023
Each year, researchers also publish more than 20 articles related to the UN Development Program’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs).
Faculty research in numbers
- 29 professors, 10 assistant professors, 10 lecturers, and around 140 doctoral researchers
- 3 Key Research Areas
- 8 Disciplinary Groups
- Around 70 articles published in leading peer-reviewed journals each year
- 2nd in Germany for research: WirtschaftsWoche Ranking 2022