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Prof. Dr. Dirk Totzek

Prof. Dr. Dirk Totzek
Prof. Dr. Dirk Totzek
Head of Chair
Room WIWI 115
Innstr. 27
94032 Passau

As of May 2013, Dirk Totzek, Ph.D., is Professor of Marketing and Chair of Marketing and Services at the University of Passau. In 2020, he was appointed as director of CenTouris - Center for data-based insights, leadings it predecessor since 2013. He also teaches at various other institutions such as Mannheim Business School and Corvinus University Budapest. His core research areas are Pricing, Service Research and Business-to-Business Marketing. His work has been pubished in leading international journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Service Research.

Before joining the University of Passau, he was a Junior Professor (Assistant Professor) for Empirical Research Methods at the School of Business at the University of Mannheim, where he also received his Habilitation degree in April 2013. After completing his studies in Business Administration at the University of Mannheim and ESSEC Business School (France), he obtained his Ph.D. in 2010 at the Chair of Professor Christian Homburg, Ph.D., at the University of Mannheim.

Research Interests

Pricing, Service Research, Customer Relationship Management, Business-to-Business Marketing

Career

Period Job title
As of 2/2020 University of Passau
Academic Director of CenTouris - Center for data-based insights
7/2019 - 12/2023

University of Passau
Member of the Board of Directors of the Passau Centre for Digitalisation in Society (CeDiS)

10/2018 - 9/2021

University of Passau
Dean of Studies of the School of Business, Economics and Information Systems

1/2014 - 3/2020 University of Passau

Responsible person for public relations at the School of Business, Economics and Information Systems

7/2013 - 2/2020 University of Passau

Academic Director of the Centre for Market Research and the Centre for Market-oriented Tourism Research

As of 5/2013 University of Passau

Professor of Marketing and Chair of Marketing and Services at the School of Business, Economics and Information Systems

4/2013 University of Mannheim

Habilitation and award of the Venia Legendi in Business Administration

10/2012–04/2013 University of Passau

Interim Chair of Marketing and Services at the School of Business, Economics and Information Systems

06/2011–04/2013 University of Mannheim

Assistant Professor for Empirical Research Methods at the School of Business

01/2011–05/2011 University of Mannheim

Assistant Professor at the Chair of Business Administration and Marketing I, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christian Homburg

07/2005–12/2010 University of Mannheim

Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate at the Chair of Business Administration and Marketing I, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christian Homburg

09/2002–06/2003 ESSEC, Cergy-Pontoise, France

Diplôme de l'ESSEC / ESSEC MBA

09/1999–06/2005

University of Mannheim, Germany
Diploma in Business Administration
Majors: Marketing, Finance

06/1998 Helmholtz-Gymnasium, Bonn-Duisdorf

Abitur (A levels)

Memberships

American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, European Marketing Academy, German Academic Association for Business Research (Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft - VHB), German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (Deutscher Hochschulverband - DHV)

Publications

Please find an overview of the publications here.

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