Robert Wilken is a Professor of International Marketing at ESCP Business School Berlin. Currently, he teaches Data-Driven Marketing, Human Behaviour, Marketing, Pricing, Selling & Negotiations, and The Art of Selling to undergraduate, graduate, and Executive students.

Robert Wilken’s current research projects address consumers’ willingness-to-pay, pricing mechanisms that improve consumers’ choices for more sustainable product options, and intercultural business negotiations. He is a member of various academic institutions and collaborates with colleagues from several universities, including those in Bremen, Cottbus, Muenster, and Trier (Germany), ESCP Paris (France), and Seattle (USA).

He has gained additional teaching experience in Vietnam, the United Kingdom, and France, and has also taught at doctoral level. At ESCP Berlin, he is Vice-rector for Faculty and Research and Associate Director of the Doctoral Programme. In the Master in Management (MIM) programme, he serves as a course coordinator for “Data-Driven Marketing”, alongside Isabella Maggioni (Turin) and as director of a specialisation in “Selling to Customers”.

Between 1997 and 2003, he studied Mathematics and Business Administration at the University of Muenster (Germany). He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Business-to-Business Marketing (under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Backhaus) at the same university. He received his doctoral degree in 2007 and has been with ESCP Business School since that summer.

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Academic Articles

2025

WILKEN, R., K. MUEHLFELD-KERSTAN, A. LODERER, T. SEMRAU

Foreign Language Use, Virtuality, and the Creative Performance of Dyadic Teams

MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL REVIEW

Academic Articles

2024

WILKEN, R., J. SCHMITT, F. DOST, D. BÜRGIN

Does the presentation of true costs at the point of purchase nudge consumers toward sustainable product options?

MARKETING LETTERS, 35 (4), 589–602

Academic Articles

2024

LODERER, A., K. MUEHLFELD-KERSTAN, R. WILKEN, A. MORITZ, V. SLOMSKI

The language barrier as a springboard towards (team) creativity: An exploratory study of foreign language use in teams

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW, 33(2), 102247

Academic Articles

2024

WILKEN, R., S. RABAA, S. GEISENDORF

Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, vol. 217, 108051

Academic Articles

2023

LODERER, A., K. MUEHLFELD-KERSTAN, R. WILKEN

Implications of Foreign Language Use for Creative Self-Evaluation Bias and Creative Performance

MANAGEMENT REVUE, 34(3), 219-248

Chapters

2023

WILKEN, R., N. PRIME

Reflections on Frank Jacob’s Contributions to the Literature on Intercultural Business Negotiations

In: Serving the Customer: The Role of Selling and Sales, Aichner, Thomas Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Academic Articles

2022

BÜRGIN, D., R. WILKEN

Increasing Consumers’ Purchase Intentions Toward Fair‑Trade Products Through Partitioned Pricing

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 181 (4), 1015-1040

Academic Articles

2022

WILKEN, R., E. STIMMER, D. BÜRGIN

Should retailers encourage couples to shop together?

JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES, 69 (November), 1-16

Academic Articles

2022

RABAA, S., S. GEISENDORF, R. WILKEN

Why change does (not) happen: Understanding and overcoming status quo biases in climate change mitigation

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR UMWELTPOLITIK UND UMWELTRECHT, 2022(1), 100-134

Chapters

2022

DOST, F., R. WILKEN

A Behavioral Approach to Pricing in Commodity Markets: Dual Processing of Prices within and around Willingness-to-Pay Ranges

In: Commodity Marketing: Strategies, Concepts, and Cases., Enke, M., Geigenmüller, A., & Leischnig, A. Springer, 105-117