Jochen Wirtz is Vice Dean, MBA Programmes and Professor of Marketing at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS). Further, he is an international fellow of the Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden, an Academic Scholar at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF) at Cornell University, US, and a Global Faculty of the Center for Services Leadership (CSL) at Arizona State University, US.
Previously, Dr Wirtz was an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (2008 to 2013), a founding member of the NUS Teaching Academy, the NUS think-tank on education matters (2009 to 2015) and the founding director of the dual degree UCLA – NUS Executive MBA Program (2002 to 2017). Dr Wirtz holds a Ph.D. in services marketing from the London Business School. His research focuses on service marketing and management, and he has published more than 200 academic articles, book chapters and industry reports (incl. six features in Harvard Business Review).
In recognition of his excellence in research and teaching, Professor Wirtz has received more than 50 awards, including the prestigious Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award in 2019 (the highest recognition of the American Marketing Association (AMA) service community), the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) 2012 Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award (the highest recognition of teaching excellence of AMS globally), and the top university-level Outstanding Educator Award at NUS.
He also was the winner of the inaugural Outstanding Service Researcher Award 2010 and the Best Practical Implications Award 2009, both awarded by Emerald Group Publications. He serves on the editorial review boards of some ten academic journals, including the Journal of Service Management, Journal of Service Research, and Cornell Hospitality Quarterly.
Dr Wirtz has been an active management consultant, working with international consulting firms, including Accenture, Arthur D. Little and KPMG, and major service firms around the world. He has been involved in a number of start-ups including in Accellion (Accellion.com; exit in 2021), TranscribeMe (TranscribeMe.com), and Uplifting Service (UpliftingService.com; exit in 2021).
Originally from Germany, Professor Wirtz spent seven years in London before moving to Asia. Today, he shuttles between Asia, Europe and the US.
NUS Teaching Excellence 2021 Award for the UCLA–NUS Executive MBA Program for the highest student rating received in the history of the program.
‘Emerald Highly Commended Award for Excellence 2021’ by Emerald Publishing for the article “Luxury Services”, published in Journal of Service Management, Vol. 31 No. 4, 665-691. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOSM-11-2019-0342
‘Best Paper JSTP Award’ by 2021 Literati Awards for Excellence for the article “Service Robots, Customers and Service Employees: What Can We Learn from the Academic Literature and Where are the Taps?”’ published in Journal of Service Theory and Practice, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 361-391.
Recognized as one of the top 2% scientists in the world based on citation impact. See Ioannides, Boyack & Baas (2020) PLOS Biology study, available at: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918
‘Emerald Highly Commended Award for Excellence 2020’, for the article “Bridging the Data Divide between Practitioners and Academics: Approaches to Collaborating Better to Leverage Each Other’s Resources”, published in Journal of Service Management, Vol. 30, No. 5, 524-548.
AMA SERVSIG Best Services Article in 2018 Award Finalist for the paper: Jochen Wirtz and Valarie Zeithaml (2018), “Cost-Effective Service Excellence”, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 59-80, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11747-017-0560-7 – 2019
Emerald Highly Commended Award for Excellence 2019 for the article: Jochen Wirtz, Paul Patterson, Werner Kunz, Thorsten Gruber, Vinh Nhat Lu, Stefanie Paluch, and Antje Martins (2018), “Brave New World: Service Robots in the Frontline”, Journal of Service Management, Vol. 29, No. 5, 907-931, https://doi.org/10.1108/JOSM-04-2018-0119 – 2019
Best Professor Award from the NUS Executive MBA Class of 2018 – 2019
Emerald Highly Commended Award for Excellence 2017 for the article “Accelerating Employee-Related Scholarship in Service Management: Research Streams, Propositions, and Commentaries” published in Journal of Service Management, 25(5), 837-865 – 2017
‘Emerald Highly Commended Award for Excellence 2015′, for the article “Psychometric Sifting to Efficiently Select the Right Service Employees”, published in Managing Service Quality – 2015
Placed on the Honor Role of the University-level Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA), NUS for winning this award three times – 2014
University-level Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA), NUS – 2013
Honorable mention, Best Paper Award for the article “Division of Labor between Firms: Business Services, Non-ownership-value and the Rise of the Service Economy,” published in Service Science, 2010, 2(3), 136-145; awarded by INFORMS – 2013
Best Paper Award for the conference paper “Is the Role of Marketing Diminishing? Results from Three Geographic Regions: Asia, Europe and USA”, EMAC, KSMS & GAMMA Joint Symposium in Istanbul 2013, by Global Alliance of Marketing and Management Associations – 2013
Winner of the 2012 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Outstanding Marketing Educator Award – 2012
University Annual Teaching Excellence Awards (NUS) – 2011
Two Emerald Literati Club Highly Commended Awards for Excellence, one each for two articles published in the Journal of Service Management – 2011
Financial Times (FT) Lexicon Professor of the Week (May 2011) – 2011
Ranked as the 2nd most productive service researcher globally in five leading services journals over a 14-year period from 1995 to 2008, an and Goudarzlou (2011), “Publications in Major Service Research Journals: An Assessment of Institutional and Individual Research Productivity,” Working Paper – 2011
Honorary appointment as International Fellow, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden – 2011
Faculty Outstanding Educator Award (NUS) – 2011
Faculty Outstanding Educator Award (NUS) – 2010
Ranked as the most productive service researcher in Asia in five leading services journals over a 14-year period from 1995 to 2008, Tan et al. (2010), “A Bibliometric Analysis of Service Research from Asia,” in Managing Service Quality, 2010, Vol. 20, No. 1, 89-101 – 2010
Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Service Management – Winner of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence – 2010
Inaugural Outstanding Service Researcher Award, by Emerald Group Publishing – 2010
Inducted as members of the NUS Teaching Academy – 2009
Best Practical Implications Award by Emerald Group Publications for the Paper with the best practical implications – 2009
Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) Honor Roll – 2009
Faculty Outstanding Educator Award (NUS) – 2009
Faculty Outstanding Educator Award (NUS) – 2008
University Annual Teaching Excellence Awards (NUS) – 2007
Emerald Literati Club Highly Commended Award for Excellence for an article published in Journal of Service Management – 2007
Reviewer of the Year Award, Australasian Marketing Journal – 2006
Emerald Literati Club Outstanding Paper Award for Excellence for the best article published in Journal of Service Management – 2006
Emerald Literati Club Highly Commended Award for Excellence for an article published in Managing Service Quality – 2006
NUS Business School Outstanding Educator Award – 2005
Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) Honor Roll – 2004
University-level Outstanding Educator Award – 2003
University Annual Teaching Excellence Awards (NUS) – 2002
Top ranked educator of the NUS Business School, nominated for the University-level Outstanding Educator – 2002
Emerald Literati Club 2002 Highly Commended Award for Excellence for an article published in Managing Service Quality – 2002
Outstanding Educator Award Recognition List (NUS) – 2002
Emerald Literati Club 2003 Award for Excellence for the ‘Most Outstanding Paper’ of the year published in the Journal of Service Management – 2002
University Annual Teaching Excellence Awards (NUS) – 2001
Outstanding Educator Award, NUS Business School – 2001
Department of Marketing Outstanding Educator Award – 2001
Best Paper Award for a paper presented at The Hospitality & Tourism Educators 2001 Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada – 2001
Emerald Literati Club 2002 Highly Commended Award for Excellence for an article published in the Journal of Service Management – 2001
MCB University Press Literati Club Award for Excellence for an article published in the Journal of Service Management – 1999
MBA Alumni Award for Excellence in Instruction, NUS Business School – 1999
PhD, Services Marketing, London Business School, UK, 1991
Assistant Professor of Marketing, National University of Singapore (NUS), 1998 – 1999
Lecturer of Marketing, National University of Singapore (NUS), 1994 – 1997
Visiting Fellow of Marketing, National University of Singapore (NUS), 1992 – 1993
Dr Wirtz has been an active management consultant, working with international consulting firms, including Accenture, Arthur D. Little and KPMG, and major service firms around the world. He has been involved in a number of start-ups
including in Accellion (Accellion.com; exit in 2021), TranscribeMe (TranscribeMe.com), and Uplifting Service (UpliftingService.com; exit in 2021). Dr Wirtz has been an active management consultant, working with international consulting
firms, including Accenture, Arthur D. Little and KPMG, and major service firms around the world. He has been involved in a number of start-ups including in Accellion (Accellion.com; exit in 2021), TranscribeMe (TranscribeMe.com), and
Uplifting Service (UpliftingService.com; exit in 2021).
Member, Singapore Quality Award Management Committee, 2020 – current
Member, Singapore Service Excellence Medallion Management Committee, 2016 – current
Member, Service Management Advisory Panel, Civil Service College (CSC) Singapore, 2016 – 2018
Member, WDA Service Excellence Skills and Training Council (SESTC), 2013 – 2014
