Michael A. Merz

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 887 citations indexed

About

Michael A. Merz is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Marketing and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. Merz has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 887 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Strategy and Management, 7 papers in Marketing and 6 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Michael A. Merz's work include Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (6 papers), Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (5 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (5 papers). Michael A. Merz is often cited by papers focused on Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (6 papers), Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (5 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (5 papers). Michael A. Merz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Michael A. Merz's co-authors include Yi He, Stephen L. Vargo, Dana L. Alden, Uta Herbst, Winfried Lamersdorf, Frank Griffel, Harald Weinreich, Mario V. Wüthrich, Miguel Mira da Silva and John Peloza and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Industrial Marketing Management and International Marketing Review.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Merz

17 papers receiving 798 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The evolving brand logic: a service-dominant logic perspective
    2009 566 citations Michael A. Merz, Yi He et al. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael A. Merz Germany 9 607 409 315 201 80 19 887
Jonathan Z. Zhang United States 15 529 0.9× 463 1.1× 231 0.7× 155 0.8× 134 1.7× 22 991
Michael A. Wiles United States 12 331 0.5× 246 0.6× 141 0.4× 206 1.0× 56 0.7× 16 739
Hakan Kitapçı Türkiye 14 486 0.8× 399 1.0× 424 1.3× 123 0.6× 39 0.5× 43 880
Neil Bendle Canada 13 337 0.6× 222 0.5× 130 0.4× 115 0.6× 81 1.0× 35 669
Junsong Chen China 14 315 0.5× 365 0.9× 226 0.7× 162 0.8× 46 0.6× 29 734
Tuck Siong Chung Singapore 7 404 0.7× 236 0.6× 248 0.8× 106 0.5× 50 0.6× 11 636
Md Afnan Hossain Bangladesh 17 365 0.6× 294 0.7× 149 0.5× 220 1.1× 239 3.0× 30 886
Lena Steinhoff Germany 13 542 0.9× 497 1.2× 413 1.3× 82 0.4× 40 0.5× 24 868
Joel Mero Finland 15 401 0.7× 487 1.2× 146 0.5× 139 0.7× 128 1.6× 30 914
Philipp Schmitt Germany 9 351 0.6× 442 1.1× 231 0.7× 119 0.6× 83 1.0× 17 744

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael A. Merz

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Merz, Michael A., et al.. (2023). Deep quantile and deep composite triplet regression. Insurance Mathematics and Economics. 109. 94–112. 8 indexed citations
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Merz, Michael A., et al.. (2013). Exploring the Antecedents for Value Cocreation during Healthcare Service Provision. 25(2). 152. 9 indexed citations
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Merz, Michael A., et al.. (2011). Creating Online Brand Value through Online Discussion Site. San José State University ScholarWorks (San Jose State University). 3(1). 15. 2 indexed citations
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Herbst, Uta & Michael A. Merz. (2011). The industrial brand personality scale: Building strong business-to-business brands. Industrial Marketing Management. 40(7). 1072–1081. 57 indexed citations
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Merz, Michael A., Yi He, & Stephen L. Vargo. (2009). The evolving brand logic: a service-dominant logic perspective. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 37(3). 328–344. 566 indexed citations breakdown →
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Merz, Michael A., John Peloza, & Qimei Chen. (2009). Standardization or localization? Executing corporate philanthropy in international firms. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. 15(3). 233–252. 7 indexed citations
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He, Yi, Michael A. Merz, & Dana L. Alden. (2008). Measurement Invariance Assessment in Cross-National Marketing Research: A Status Quo Analysis of its Application. ACR North American Advances. 1 indexed citations
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Merz, Michael A., Yi He, & Dana L. Alden. (2008). A categorization approach to analyzing the global consumer culture debate. International Marketing Review. 25(2). 166–182. 67 indexed citations
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He, Yi, Michael A. Merz, & Dana L. Alden. (2008). Diffusion of Measurement Invariance Assessment in Cross-National Empirical Marketing Research: Perspectives from the Literature and a Survey of Researchers. Journal of International Marketing. 16(2). 64–83. 58 indexed citations
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Merz, Michael A., et al.. (2002). Service trading and mediation in distributed computing systems. 450–457. 10 indexed citations
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Griffel, Frank, et al.. (2002). Electronic contract negotiation as an application niche for mobile agents. 1219. 354–365. 16 indexed citations
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Merz, Michael A.. (2000). PAPINET - Ein Best-Practice-Projekt zur B2B-Kommunikation in der Papierindustrie.. Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik. 215. 87–98. 1 indexed citations
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Merz, Michael A., et al.. (1999). Electronic Commerce Technologische und organisatorische Grundlagen. Informatik-Spektrum. 22(5). 328–343. 2 indexed citations
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Merz, Michael A.. (1999). Elektronische Dienstemärkte. 2 indexed citations
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Merz, Michael A.. (1997). Electronic Service Markets.. Electronic Markets. 7. 6–9. 2 indexed citations
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Griffel, Frank, et al.. (1997). Generic Policy Management for Open Service Markets. 3 indexed citations
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Müller, Kai W. & Michael A. Merz. (1994). Der TRADE-Trader: Ein Basisdienst offener verteilter Systeme.
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Merz, Michael A. & Winfried Lamersdorf. (1993). Cooperation Support for an Open Service Market. 329–340. 3 indexed citations

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