Prof. Dr. Martin Meißner

Professorship

Digital Marketing

Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Dr. Martin Meißner's (*1979) research focuses on social media and digitization as well as consumer decision-making processes applying eyetracking and augmented and virtual reality. In the context of social media, he particularly investigates influencer marketing. He uses eyetracking to understand decision-making processes in detail. His research has been published in internationally renowned journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research and Information Systems Research.

Martin Meißner studied Business Administration at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Bielefeld University. After a research stay at Monash University in Australia, he was Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark from 2013 to 2019. In 2020, he accepted the position as Professor of Marketing at Zeppelin University. Since 2022, Martin Meißner has been Professor of Digital Marketing at the TUM School of Management at the Heilbronn Campus.

    Awards

    • Best Paper of the Year Award of the Journal Information Systems Research
    • Research grant and scholarship, German Research Foundation (DFG)
    • Dissertation Award – Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft
    • Finalist of DMV (Deutscher Marketing Verband)’s dissertation award
    • Special award of the Professional Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM)

    Pfeiffer, J., T. Pfeiffer, M. Meißner, E. Weiß (2020). Eye-Tracking-Based Classification of Information Search Behavior Using Machine Learning: Evidence from Experiments in Physical Shops and Virtual Reality Shopping Environments. Information Systems Research, 31(3), 675-691.

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    Peukert, C., J. Pfeiffer, M. Meißner, T. Pfeiffer, C. Weinhardt (2020). Shopping in Virtual Reality Stores: The Influence of Immersion on System Adoption. Journal of Management Information Systems, 36(3), 1-34.

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    Meißner, M., J. Oll (2019). The Promise of Eye-Tracking Methodology in Organizational Research: Best Practice Recommendations and Future Avenues. Organizational Research Methods, 22(2), 590-617.

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    Meißner, M., A. Musalem, J. Huber (2016). Eye-Tracking Reveals a Process of Conjoint Choice that is Quick, Efficient and Largely Free from Contextual Biases. Journal of Marketing Research, 53(1), 1-17.

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    Scholz, S. W., M. Meißner, R. Decker (2010). Measuring Consumer Preferences for Complex Products: A Compositional Approach Based on Paired Comparisons. Journal of Marketing Research, 47(4), 685-698.

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