Stremersch graduated with the highest honors from Tilburg University (Ph.D. in Business Economics, 2001) and Ghent University (B.A and M.A. in Applied Economics, 1996). He also held positions at University of Southern California (USA), University of California at Los Angeles (USA), Emory University (USA) and Duke University (USA).
Career and awards
As a professor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and IESE he has taught at all levels including bachelor's- and master's-level courses in Economics, bachelor's-level courses in Business, MBA, EMBA, Global MBA and open programs (PLD, PMD). Stremersch teaches marketing, marketing strategy, marketing innovation, and marketing of high technology in IESE's MBA and executive education programs. Before joining IESE, he taught at Duke University (Fuqua), Emory University (Goizueta) and LBS. He has taught in many in-company programs for companies such as 3M, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Henkel, Komatsu, Philips, and Rabobank. Through MTI² he has consulted for a number of companies, such as Alcatel-Lucent, KLM, Michelin, Merck, Heraeus, Sabic, SKF and NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
Stremersch has won several awards, such as the Harold H. Maynard Best Paper Award of the Journal of Marketing (2002), the J.C. Ruigrok Prize for the most productive young researcher in the social sciences in the Netherlands (awarded only once every four years), and the Rajan Varadarajan Early Career Award of the American Marketing Association (in 2008). He was awarded the American Marketing Association Maynard Award for the most significant contribution to marketing thought (2003) and the American Marketing Association Global Marketing Award (2006). In 2015, Stefan Stremersch was awarded the prestigious International Francqui Chair by Ghent University (Belgium).
In 2009, a paper published in Journal of Marketing cited him as the second most prolific scholar in top marketing journals. In 2012, a paper published in International Journal of Research in Marketing was awarded with the best paper award. In 2014 he won the best paper award of the International Journal of Research in Marketing for the 2nd time in 3 years. He is editorial board member of several journals, including Journal of Marketing Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing and Marketing Science. From 2006 till 2009 he has been editor of the International Journal of Research in Marketing (EMAC - Europe).
Journal articles
“The Commercial Contribution of Clinical Studies for Pharmaceutical Drugs”, (with Ashish Sood and Eelco Kappe), International Journal of Research in Marketing
“From Academic Research to Marketing Practice: Exploring the Marketing Science Value Chain”, (with John Roberts and Ujwal Kayande),International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2014.
Winner IJRM Best Paper Award 2014
“The Relationship between DTCA, Drug Requests and Prescriptions: Uncovering Variation in Specialty and Space”, (with Vardit Landsman & Sriram Venkataraman), Marketing Science, 2013, 32 (1), 89-110.
“Analysis of Sensitive Questions Across Cultures: An Application of Multigroup Item Randomized Response Theory to Sexual Attitudes and Behavior”, (with Martijn de Jong & Rik Pieters), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012, 103 (3), 543-564.
“Dynamics in International Market Segmentation of New Product Growth”, (with Aurélie Lemmens & Christophe Croux), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2012, 29 (1), 81-92.
Winner IJRM Best Paper Award 2012
“Multi-Homing in Two-Sided Markets: An Empirical Inquiry in the Video Game Console Industry”, (with Vardit Landsman), Journal of Marketing, 2011, 75 (November), 39-52.
“The Global Entry of New Pharmaceuticals: A Joint Investigation of Launch Window and Price”, (with Isabel Verniers & Christophe Croux), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2011, 28 (4), 295-308.
“Predictably Non-Bayesian: Quantifying Salience Effects in Physician Learning About Drug Quality”, (with Nuno Camacho & Bas Donkers), Marketing Science 30 (2), 2011, 305-320.
“Does New Product Growth Accelerate Across Technology Generations?”, (with Eitan Muller & Renana Peres), Marketing Letters, 21 (2), 2010, 103-120.
“Editorial Marketing competition in the 21st century”, (with Oliver Heil and Don Lehmann), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 27, 2010, 161–163.
“The Evolving Social Network of Marketing Scholars”, (with Jacob Goldenberg, Barak Libai, and Eitan Muller), Marketing Science, 29 (3), 2010, 561–567.
“Preface to The chilling effects of network externalities”, (with Donald R. Lehmann and Marnik G. Dekimpe), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 27 (1), 2010, 1-3.
“From the (Past) Editors”, (with Donald R. Lehmann), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 26 (4), 2009, 257-258.
“Preface to a Debate”, (with Donald R. Lehmann), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 26 (2), 2009, 153.
“Marketing of the Life Sciences: A New Framework and Research Agenda for a Nascent Field”, (with Walter Van Dyck), "lead article" "article featured on JM blog", Journal of Marketing, 73 (4), 2009, 4-30.
“Modeling Global Spill-Over in New Product Takeoff”, (with Yvonne Van Everdingen and Dennis Fok), Journal of Marketing Research, 46 (5), 2009, 637-652.
Winner ERIM Top Article Award 2010
“The Effect of Superstar Software on Hardware Sales in System Markets”, (with Jeroen L.G. Binken), Journal of Marketing, 73 (2), 2009, 88-104.
“Sales Growth of New Pharmaceuticals Across the Globe: The Role of Regulatory Regimes”, (with Aurélie Lemmens), Marketing Science, 28 (4), 2009, 690-708.
“Health and Marketing: The Emergence of a New Field of Research”, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 25 (4), 2008, 229-233.
“25 Years of IJRM: Reflections on the Past and the Future”, (with Donald R. Lehmann), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 25 (3), 2008, 143-148.
“Editorial”, (with Don Lehmann), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 24 (4), 2007, 277.
“The Debate on Influencing Doctors’ Decisions: Are Drug Characteristics the Missing Link?”, (with Sriram Venkataraman), Management Science, 53 (11), 2007, 1688-1701.
“The Quest for Citations: Drivers of Article Impact”, (with Isabel Verniers and Peter C. Verhoef), Journal of Marketing, 71 (3), 2007, 171-193.
“Indirect Network Effects in New Product Growth”, (with Gerard Tellis, Philip Hans Franses and Jeroen L.G. Binken), Journal of Marketing, Chicago: 71 (3), 2007, 52-74.
“Editorial”, (with Don Lehmann), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 24 (1), 2007, 1-2.
“Customizing Complex Products: When Should the Vendor Take Control?”, (with Mrinal Ghosh and Shantanu Dutta), Journal of Marketing Research, 43 (November), 2006, 664-679.
“Globalization of Authorship in the Marketing Discipline: Evolution, Country Productivity and Consequences”, (with Peter C. Verhoef),Marketing Science, 24 (4), 2005, 585-594.
“Marketing Mass Customized Products: Striking the Balance between Utility and Complexity”, (with Benedict G.C. Dellaert), Journal of Marketing Research, 42 (May), 2005, 219-227.
“Understanding and Managing International Growth of New Products”, (with Gerard J. Tellis), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 21 (4), 2004, 421-438.
Winner of the MSI & IJRM Research Competition on Global Marketing 2003
Finalist AMA TechSIG Best Paper Award 2005
“Vertical Marketing Systems for Complex Products: A Triadic Perspective”, (with Stefan Wuyts, Christophe Van den Bulte and Philip Hans Franses), Journal of Marketing Research, 41 (November), 2004, 479-487.
“Social Contagion and Income Heterogeneity in New Product Diffusion: A Meta-Analytic Test”, (with Christophe Van den Bulte), Marketing Science, 23 (4), 2004, 530-544.
Winner ERIM Top Article Award 2005
“Portfolios of Interfirm Agreements in Technology-Intensive Markets: Consequences for Innovation and Profitability”, (with Stefan Wuyts and Shantanu Dutta), Journal of Marketing, 68 (2), 2004, 88-100.
“Buying Modular Systems in Technology-Intensive Markets”, (with Allen M. Weiss, Benedict G.C. Dellaert and Ruud T. Frambach), Journal of Marketing Research, 40 (3), 2003, 335-350.
Finalist AMA TechSig Best Paper Award 2004
“The International Takeoff of New Products: The Role of Economics, Culture, and Country Innovativeness”, (with Gerard J. Tellis and Eden Yin), Marketing Science, 22 (2), 2003, 188-208.
Discussed in numerous newspapers, journals and newswires nationally and abroad – such as The Economist, Sloan Management Review, Het Financieel Dagblad, De Financieel Economische Tijd
Winner ERIM Impact Award 2004
Winner Global Marketing Award, American Marketing Association, 2006
Most Highly Cited Paper Published in Marketing Science in the 2003 volume (2005, 2006)
Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award Finalist, 2009 & 2010
“Strategic Bundling of Products and Prices: A New Synthesis For Marketing”, (with Gerard J. Tellis), Journal of Marketing, 66 (January), 2002, 55-72.
Winner of the 2002 Harold H. Maynard Best Paper Award
Top-3 of most readable articles (Sawyer, Laran and Xu, Journal of Marketing, January 2008)
“The Purchasing of Full-Service Contracts: An Exploratory Study within the Industrial Maintenance Market”, (with Stefan Wuyts & Ruud T. Frambach), Industrial Marketing Management, 2001, 30 (1), 1-12.
Ding, M., Eliashberg, J. & Stremersch, S. (2014). Innovation and Marketing in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Emerging Practices, Research, and Policies. Springer.
Stremersch, S. & Tindemans, E.B. (2007). Verlicht Ondernemen. Leuven (Belgie) en Rotterdam (Nederland): Lannoo Campus/Scriptum.
