Christian M. Ringle

Christian M. Ringle is a Chaired Professor of Management and the Director of the Institute of Human Resource Management and Organizations (HRMO) in the Department of Management Sciences and Technology at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hamburg. Among other research stays and appointments, Ringle was a visiting researcher at the Georgia State University and the Osaka City University and he was a Conjoint Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Newcastle in Australia. His research addresses human resource management, organization, marketing, strategic management, and quantitative methods for business and market research. His contributions in these fields have been published in journals such as International Journal of Research in Marketing, Information Systems Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Service Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Long Range Planning, MIS Quarterly, and Tourism Management. Since 2018, Ringle has been included in the Clarivate Analytics' Highly Researchers list. He offers online courses and regularly teaches doctoral seminars on multivariate statistics, especially the PLS-SEM method, and the use of the statistical software such as SmartPLS.