Professor Frank Jacob is a member of the European Department of Marketing at ESCP Europe and located at their Berlin campus. He studied business administration at the Universität des Saarlandes where he graduated in 1989 with the degree of Diplom-Kaufmann. During his studies he was an exchange student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA) from 1985 to 1986. In 1989 he began work on his Ph.D. while being an assistant lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin. From this time on he specialized on business-to-business marketing issues. Professor Jacob earned his doctorate in 1994 with a dissertation on product customization in the industrial sector. He continued his academic career with a Habilitation project (post-doctoral qualification to supervise research) at the same university. This was completed in 2001 with research on industrial business relationships. In the academic year 1997/1998 he reinforced his international orientation as a visiting professor at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. Professor Jacob has held the position of professor of Marketing at ESCP Europe Berlin campus since January 2002. In this position he also had teaching assignments at institutions in different regions including Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, India, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He has extensive teaching experience in marketing on the undergraduate,  graduate, post-graduate, PhD, and executive level. He is also involved in business consulting.

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Academic Articles

2024

JACOB, F., H., N. BULAWA, K. MASON

Should the wheel be reinvented? Market-referencing in the electric vehicle market charging infrastructure

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, 185, December

Chapters

2023

JACOB, F., H., A. ROICK

Customer Success Management: Unearthing Dimensions of a Novel Job Category

In: Marketing und Innovation in disruptiven Zeiten, Kleinaltenkamp, Michael; Gabriel, Lorenz; Morgen, Julian; Ngyuen, Mi Springer Gabler, 347-362

Academic Articles

2022

HARTWIG, K. L., F. JACOB

Capturing marketing practices for harnessing value-in-use

JOURNAL OF MARKETING THEORY AND PRACTICE, 30(2), 137-153

Academic Articles

2022

JACOB, F., H., K. L. HARTWIG

A value-in-use oriented sales approach for digital services of technology companies

MARKETING ZFP - JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT, 44(2), 24-43

Academic Articles

2022

BULAWA, N., F. JACOB

More Than a Snapshot: Dynamic Value-in-Use Emergence in E-Services

ELECTRONIC MARKETS, 32(4), 153-165

Chapters

2022

JACOB, F., T. AICHNER

Customer Participation and Commodity Marketing

In: Commodity Marketing, Enke, Margit; Geigenmüller, Anja, Leischnig, Alexander (eds.) Springer International Publishing

Academic Articles

2021

AICHNER, T., P. COLETTI, F. JACOB, R. WILKEN

Did the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal Harm the “Made in Germany” Image? A Cross-Cultural, Cross-Products, Cross-Time Study

CORPORATE REPUTATION REVIEW, 24, 179-190

Academic Articles

2021

HARTWIG, K. L., L. VON SALDERN, F. JACOB

The journey from goods-dominant logic to service-dominant logic

INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT, 95, 85-98

Academic Articles

2020

JACOB, F., A. SEBALD

What help do you need for your fashion shopping?

EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 38(2), 319-334

Academic Articles

2020

JACOB, F., S. SCHAETZLE

Will a supplier's origin make a difference to its business customers?

INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT, 87, 196-207