Michael Ehret

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Michael Ehret is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Marketing and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Ehret has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Strategy and Management, 14 papers in Marketing and 10 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Michael Ehret's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (12 papers), Service and Product Innovation (10 papers) and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (9 papers). Michael Ehret is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (12 papers), Service and Product Innovation (10 papers) and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty (9 papers). Michael Ehret collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and Germany. Michael Ehret's co-authors include Jochen Wirtz, Wesley J. Johnston, William Boulding, Richard Staelin, Vishal Kashyap, Sven Tuzovic, Michael Kleinaltenkamp, Nelson Oly Ndubisi, Christian Kowalkowski and Frank Jacob and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Marketing and Journal of Business Research.

In The Last Decade

Michael Ehret

32 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

A Customer Relationship Management Roadmap: What is Known... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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. A Customer Relationship Management Roadmap: What is Known, Potential Pitfalls, and Where to Go
    2005 573 citations Michael Ehret, Wesley J. Johnston et al. 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 Ehret United Kingdom 14 687 650 524 309 296 33 1.5k
Catherine Pardo France 19 709 1.0× 446 0.7× 762 1.5× 279 0.9× 433 1.5× 47 1.6k
Christoph F. Breidbach Australia 19 430 0.6× 977 1.5× 330 0.6× 647 2.1× 282 1.0× 46 1.7k
Linda D. Peters United Kingdom 23 611 0.9× 871 1.3× 604 1.2× 432 1.4× 142 0.5× 46 1.6k
Hung‐Tai Tsou Taiwan 16 306 0.4× 491 0.8× 498 1.0× 381 1.2× 213 0.7× 31 1.4k
Teck‐Yong Eng United Kingdom 24 459 0.7× 394 0.6× 763 1.5× 307 1.0× 358 1.2× 55 1.6k
Jesús Cambra‐Fierro Spain 28 763 1.1× 939 1.4× 605 1.2× 733 2.4× 244 0.8× 89 2.0k
Larry J. Menor Canada 13 650 0.9× 886 1.4× 812 1.5× 272 0.9× 577 1.9× 19 1.9k
Merlin Stone United Kingdom 23 881 1.3× 848 1.3× 498 1.0× 587 1.9× 450 1.5× 131 2.1k
Heiko Wieland United States 15 580 0.8× 974 1.5× 563 1.1× 408 1.3× 107 0.4× 16 1.6k
Judy Zolkiewski United Kingdom 21 806 1.2× 949 1.5× 872 1.7× 261 0.8× 343 1.2× 67 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Ehret

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Ehret

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Ehret

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Ehret. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Ehret based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Ehret. Michael Ehret is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ehret, Michael, Wesley J. Johnston, & Thomas Ritter. (2024). From buying centers to buying ecosystems: Advancing the B2B research journey. Industrial Marketing Management. 117. A10–A16. 5 indexed citations
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Cortez, Roberto Mora, Wesley J. Johnston, & Michael Ehret. (2023). “Good Times–Bad Times” – Relationship marketing through business cycles. Journal of Business Research. 165. 114063–114063. 13 indexed citations
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Kowalkowski, Christian, Jochen Wirtz, & Michael Ehret. (2023). Digital service innovation in B2B markets. Journal of service management. 35(2). 280–305. 24 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael, et al.. (2023). Banking the unbanked. Constitutive rules and the institutionalization of mobile payment systems in Nigeria. Journal of Business Research. 163. 113845–113845. 9 indexed citations
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Pattinson, Steven, John Nicholson, Michael Ehret, Chander Velu, & Paul Ryan. (2022). Innovation ecosystems in B2B contexts: Owning the space. Industrial Marketing Management. 108. A1–A9. 11 indexed citations
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Kashyap, Vishal, et al.. (2021). Lightening the dark side of customer participation – The mitigating role of relationship performance in business-to-business project contexts. Journal of Business Research. 140. 220–231. 19 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael. (2018). Situational awareness and transparency as core concepts of authentic leadership. Pepperdine Digital Commons (Pepperdine University). 1 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael & Jochen Wirtz. (2016). Unlocking value from machines: business models and the industrial internet of things. Journal of Marketing Management. 33(1-2). 111–130. 174 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael. (2016). Common leadership strategies and practices among authentic senior leaders. Pepperdine Digital Commons (Pepperdine University). 1 indexed citations
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Wirtz, Jochen, Sven Tuzovic, & Michael Ehret. (2015). Global business services. Journal of service management. 26(4). 565–587. 51 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael. (2013). Financial socialism: The role of financial economics in economic disorganization. Journal of Business Research. 67(1). 2686–2692. 4 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael. (2013). Emergence of business markets — A critical realist foundation. Industrial Marketing Management. 42(3). 316–323. 19 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael, et al.. (2012). High Technology and Economic Development: The BioCity Nottingham Technology Incubator. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. 13(4). 301–309. 5 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael & Michaela Haase. (2012). The common ground of relationships and exchange: towards a contractual foundation of marketing. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing. 27(6). 447–455. 7 indexed citations
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Smith, David J. & Michael Ehret. (2012). ‘Beyond the golden triangle’: Biotechnology incubation in the East Midlands region of the UK. Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit. 28(1). 66–84. 4 indexed citations
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Wirtz, Jochen & Michael Ehret. (2009). Creative restruction – how business services drive economic evolution. European Business Review. 21(4). 380–394. 11 indexed citations
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Kleinaltenkamp, Michael & Michael Ehret. (2006). The value added by specific investments: a framework for managing relationships in the context of value networks. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing. 21(2). 65–71. 30 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael. (2000). Innovative Kapitalnutzung. Deutscher Universitätsverlag eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Ehret, Michael & Hans Matzura. (1988). Replication control of theStaphylococcus aureuschloramphenicol resistance plasmids pC223 and pUB112 inBacillus subtills. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(5). 2045–2062. 11 indexed citations

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