Stefan Wuyts

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Professor, Program Director of Penn State, Director of Institute for the Study of Business Markets

Department Marketing
Office Address 468 468 Business Building
Phone Number 814-867-0226
Email Address suw282@psu.edu

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Expertise

B2B Marketing, Interorganizational Relationships, Innovation, Networks, Platforms and Ecosystems

Education

Ph D, Marketing, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2003

MA, Marketing, The University of Ghent, 1998

BA, Marketing, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1997

Courses Taught

MKTG 556 – Mktg Mgmt (3)
To explore the conceptual and applied dimensions of marketing management. MKTG 556 Marketing Management (3)This course is a seminar course, so class involvement will be a major component. In addition, students will be expected to prepare two papers. The first will be a journal submission review; the second will be the written version of each student's research proposal. Academics need to understand journal reviewing, and they need to develop research ideas and write about them. Students will also be expected to prepare and perform two oral presentations. The first will be the presentation discussed in the session description below and will be a part of their class participation. The second will be an oral form of the student's research presentation. Students need to be able to communicate their ideas, and it is hoped that having an oral presentation of their proposals before the written presentation will also help them improve their proposal. Finally, there will be an examination at the end of the course. Each class session, with the exception of the first and last class periods, will be devoted to an important topic in the marketing management domain. For each class period, other than the two exceptions, students will read around 7 papers. The papers will be a mix of classical, seminal works and recent, cutting-edge works in the assigned area. The bulk of the class period will be devoted to discussion of the articles assigned. Discussion will be devoted to a) why the article is important, b) good points of the article, c) bad points of the article, and d) research ideas that the article might suggest or engender. In addition, one student per week will be responsible to find, prepare, and present another published paper that deals with the weeks' issues ; this presentation will be part of the student's participation grade. The last few minutes of each class will be devoted to a discussion by the instructors of where research in the assigned area is going and some interesting open research questions in the area. The two exceptions among the class periods will be the first and last class. In the first class, we will have an introduction to research in marketing management and this particular Ph.D. seminar, while the last class will be devoted to allowing the remaining students to present their research proposals.

MKTG 600 – Thesis Research (Variable)

MKTG 818 – B2B Marketing Strategy (3)
This course is designed to provide students with a framework for value creation and delivery in business-to-business (B2B) markets. The course introduces basic concepts and theories of B2B marketing, includes application to various strategic B2B marketing decisions, and offers an overarching framework for B2B marketing strategy formation. The applied nature of the course is reflected in the focus on tools and frameworks, the use of case studies, cameos by B2B industry leaders, and assignments encouraging students to creatively approach and solve B2B marketing problems and make decisions that foster organic growth.

MKTG 833 – Business Marketing (2)
MKTG 833 focuses on transactions between organizations, i.e., "Business-to-Business" (B2B) markets, which are critical to the growth and health of the economy, and an essential part of economic life. In most years, the $ volume of transactions between businesses exceeds transactions that are Business-to-Consumer (B2C). The bulk of online business is B2B. Yet, B2B markets differ fundamentally from B2C markets. In this class, students learn the language, concepts, theories, principles, and best practices of modern B2B marketing. The course follows a proven template for developing B2B marketing strategy to drive business results. This framework is called the Value Delivery Framework, and covers building a value understanding, strategy formulation, the design of customer value, the communication and delivery of customer value, and life-cycle management.

MKTG 596 – Individual Studies (Variable)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.

MKTG 533 – Business Marketing (2)
MKTG 833 focuses on transactions between organizations, i.e., "Business-to-Business" (B2B) markets, which are critical to the growth and health of the economy, and an essential part of economic life. In most years, the $ volume of transactions between businesses exceeds transactions that are Business-to-Consumer (B2C). The bulk of online business is B2B. Yet, B2B markets differ fundamentally from B2C markets. In this class, students learn the language, concepts, theories, principles, and best practices of modern B2B marketing. The course follows a proven template for developing B2B marketing strategy to drive business results. This framework is called the Value Delivery Framework, and covers building a value understanding, strategy formulation, the design of customer value, the communication and delivery of customer value, and life-cycle management.

MKTG 571 – Marketing Strategy (2)
Examines business-level marketing issues and solutions to problems in competitive business environments.

MKTG 590 – Colloquium (3)
Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.

MKTG 597 – Special Topics (Variable)

MKTG 450 – Marketing Strategy (3)
Market-oriented problems of the firm; identification and selection of market opportunities; formulation of competitive strategies; marketing policies and programs.

MTKG 450 – Marketing Strategy (3)
Market-oriented problems of the firm; identification and selection of market opportunities; formulation of competitive strategies; marketing policies and programs.

Selected Publications

Lilien G. L., Petersen J. A., WUYTS S., "Handbook of Business-to-Business Marketing, Second Edition." 2022
Stremersch S., Camacho N., Keko E., WUYTS S., "Grassroots Innovation Success: The Role of Self-Determination and Leadership Style." International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2022
WUYTS S., Mooi E., "Value from Technology Licensing--The Role of Monitoring and Licensing Experience." International Journal of Research in Marketing, vol. 38, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1034-1054
Liechty J., WUYTS S., "'If I Had a Hedge Fund, I Would Cure Diabetes': Endogenous Mechanisms for Creating Public Goods." SN Business & Economics, 2021
Harmancioglu N., Wuyts S., Ozturan P., "Governance Implications of Modularity in Sourcing Relationships." Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, vol. 49, no. 3, 2021, pp. 601-625
Srinivasan R., Wuyts S., Mallapragada G., "Corporate Board Interlocks and New Product Introductions." Journal of Marketing, vol. 82, no. 1, 2018
Wuyts S., Rindfleisch A., Citrin A., "Outsourcing customer support: the role of provider customer focus." Journal of Operations Management, vol. 35, 2015
Geyskens I., Gielens K., Wuyts S., "United we stand: The impact of buying groups on retailer productivity." Journal of Marketing, vol. 79, no. 4, 2015
Wuyts S., Dutta S., "Benefiting from alliance portfolio diversity -- the role of past internal knowledge creation strategy." Journal of Management, 2014
Raassens N., Wuyts S., Geyskens I., "The performance implications of outsourcing customer support to service providers in emerging versus established economies." International Journal of Research in Marketing, vol. 31, no. 3, 2014
Beck B. B., Wuyts S., Jap S., "Guardians of Trust: How Review Platforms Can Fight Fakery and Build Consumer Trust." Journal of Marketing Research
Villena V. H., Cheng L., Wuyts S., "Realizing operational and innovation benefits in buyer-supplier relationships: The role of close ties to the partner’s partners." International Journal of Operations and Production Management
Slot J., Wuyts S., Geyskens I., "Does customer participation in outsourced NPD help or hurt? The role of relationship multiplexity." Journal of Operations Management

Editorships

International Journal of Research in Marketing, Associate Editor, January 2019 - Present
Journal of Marketing, Associate Editor, July 2018 - Present
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Associate Editor, September 2017 - Present

Honors and Awards