aemarktg
Department of Marketing

I am primarily interested in human and consumer behavior in the context of digital environments. My main research focuses on questions such as how and why people use social and online media and how reviews and other stimuli and cues in the digital environment affect their judgements and decision-making. One core topic is the emerging group of social media influencers with the aim to understand their self-branding efforts, and, as such, their role in communicating and branding products, services, and experiences to follower audiences online. Methodologically, I am pragmatic and use both quantitative (incl. survey and experimental designs) and qualitative methods, often in triangulation.
I am co-founder of the Digital Marketing Research Center and member of the Consumer Research Cluster
From 2012-2015, I held an individual Marie Curie post-doc fellowship, funded by the EU 7th Framework Program. The project investigated experimentally how to compose good brand names for novel products based on information-processing theories. I received my Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Before entering academia, I worked in PR, sales, and marketing in the automotive and software industry.
- Human and consumer behavior in digital environments
- Social media influencers
- Consumer information-processing, consumer motivation, consumer judgement and decision-making
- Departmental Education Advisor (2020)
- Elective coordinator (2019)
- Shop steward (since 2017)
- Co-founder of the Digital Marketing Research Cluster
- The Power of (Marketing) Language: How Names, Frames, and Phrases Affect our Perceptions, Judgements, and Decisions (elective, MSc)
- Consumer Behaviour (mandatory course, HA (Psyk))
- Bachelor’s projects and Master’s theses in my areas of interest (see above)
- PhD supervision
You would like to know how ‘normal’ people became those important social media influencers as we know them today?
Then this article might be of interest to you: Antonia Erz; Anna-Bertha Heeris Christensen / Transforming Consumers Into Brands : Tracing Transformation Processes of the Practice of Blogging.
In: Journal of Interactive Marketing, Vol. 43, No. 3, 8.2018, p. 69-82
You are unsure whether smileys are appropriate when communicating with your students?
Then this could be a good read: Ben Marder; David Houghton; Antonia Erz; Lloyd Harris; Ana Javornik / Smile(y) – and Your Students Will Smile with You? : The Effects of Emoticons on Impressions, Evaluations, and Behaviour in Staff-to-student Communication.
In: Studies in Higher Education, 8.4.2019
Ever wondered whether the thought of social media makes you do good things?
Have a look here: Laura Lavertu; Ben Marder; Antonia Erz; Robert Angell / The Extended Warming Effect of Social Media : Examining Whether the Cognition of Online Audiences Offline Drives Prosocial Behavior in ‘Real Life’.
In: Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 110, 9.2020
Do we really like the messiness of photos taken by other hotel guests when we decide which hotel to book online?
Learn about the pros and cons of professional photos on online review sites here: Ben Marder; Antonia Erz; Robert Angell; Kirk Plangger / The Role of Photograph Aesthetics on Online Review Sites : Effects of Management- versus Traveler-generated Photos on Tourists’ Decision Making.
I: Journal of Travel Research, 30.12.2019
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2024, 436 p.
Abstract from Brand Camp 6, 2024
In: Business Education in the 21st Century: Developing Discipline Competences and Transformation Capabilities. . ed. /Adam Lindgreen; Eleri Rosier; Antonia Erz; Ben Marder; Sylvia von Wallpach. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2024, p. xxii-xxxi
Paper presented at The European Association for Consumer Research Conference. EACR 2023, 2023
In: European Management Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2022, 8 p., p. 459-466
In: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol. 47, No. 3, 5.2022, p. 390-410
In: Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 106, 2022, 5 p., p. A7-A11
In: International Marketing Review, Vol. 38, No. 6, 2021, p. 1308-1330
In: Journal of Travel Research, Vol. 60, No. 1, 1.2021, p. 31-46
In: Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 45, No. 11, 11.2020, p. 2274-2286
In: Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 110, 9.2020
In: European Management Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2019, 6 p., p. 245-250
In: Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 91, 2.2019, p. 72–83
Abstract from The 47th EMAC Annual Conference 2018, 2018
In: Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 89, 12.2018, p. 48-60
In: Journal of Interactive Marketing, Vol. 43, No. 3, 8.2018, p. 69-82
In: Developing New Functional Food and Nutraceutical Products. ed. /Debasis Bagchi; Sreejayan Nair. London : Academic Press 2017, p. 63-83
In: Proceedings of the European Marketing Academy (EMAC) Conference: Marketing in the Age of Data. . ed. /Klemens Knöferle; Luk Warlop; Bendik Samuelsen. Brussels : European Marketing Academy. EMAC 2016 (Proceedings of the European Marketing Academy)
Paper presented at The 44th EMAC Annual Conference 2015, 2015
Paper presented at French-Austrian-German Workshop on Consumer Behaviour, 2015
In: ACR 2014 Association for Consumer Research North American Conference 2014: Proceedings. . ed. /June Cotte; Stacy Wood; Linda Price. Baltimore : Association for Consumer Research 2014, 3 p.
In: SCP Winter Conference: Proceedings. . ed. /Mark Forehand; Americus Reed. www : Society for Consumer Psychology 2014, 3 p.
In: European Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 10, 2013, 2 p., p. 196-197
Abstract from 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Consumer Research. ACR 2012, 2012
Frederiksberg : CBS Business Stories 2019
In: Nyhedsbrevet om Forbrugeradfærd, No. 22, 2014, p. 2-9
Er influencere skyld i overforbrug?
'Pssst, jeg har noget, jeg gerne vil sige til dig': Influencere var hjørnesten i Powers åbningsfest
Tidligere trader i Goldman Sachs advarer mod scams
Kan man købe en kunde for en bolle med ost?
Kan dit barn kende forskel på DR-Joakim og Arla-Joakim?
Vi er vilde med madspildsapps: »Vi har udsolgt næsten hver dag«
Influencere tjener styrtende på at flashe et forbrugstungt liv på Instagram. Og den klimabevidste ungdom elsker at følge med
Klimaangste unge køber influenceres enorme og sponsorerede forbrug af tøj og rejser
CBS kårer årets bedste forskningsformidler
New CBS-developed teaching material is like ''a digital and interactive textbook''
Den feminine fordel
Nu køber vi både modetøj og møbler online
Taler du emoji'sk?
Influencere: De levende reklamesøjler
De levende reklamesøjler
Alle kan se sig selv i Kylie Jenner
Man kan relatere til Kylie Jenner
Influencere kæmper med at bevare danskernes tillid
Emojier gør læreren populær
Studie: Brug af emojis får en underviser til at fremstå dummere, men venlig
Smileys får dig til at fremstå dummere, men flink
Why teachers should use emojis more often?
Den negative anmeldelse får mest opmærksomhed
Venskabelig anbefaling eller betalt propaganda?
Kunde-anmeldelser på web kan give eller koste kunder
- 2020: External PhD-supervisor to Sebastian Oliver, University of Edinburgh, Business School
- 2019 and ongoing: Associate editor for the area of marketing of European Management Journal