🇬🇧OPEN LETTER TO PROF. DR. CHRISTIAN HOMBURG - Update: The new "Best Practice" in marketing science⁉️
My groundbreaking doctoral thesis from 2007 on "Teams as Living Quantum Systems" – Scientific Integrity, Academic Appropriation, and the Human Bill…🙏😢🙏
Are you ready for my coaching from the mortal I (ego) to the immortal self (soul)? 5 questions, decide for yourself: 🤯👉😇❓: [Link]
Your think that love❤️ is a mediator construct – when in fact it is the origin of all true science, of everything.
You sense this intuitively, of course, my dear friends: Link
Dan Brown explains here quite simply the backwardness of around 90% (?) of current university research – including your "Causal Homburg School of Marketing". Basically, in his international bestseller, he repeats exactly what I tried unsuccessfully to convey to you 20 years ago:
The Unsettled Account – A Final Reckoning
Dear Professor Homburg,
Twenty years after you dismissed my assertion that "love transcends causal models," this two-part correspondence concludes what was left unfinished.
Part 1: Academic Appropriation
Presentation of the results of MY dissertation "Team Selling - Key Success Factors in Exploiting Sales Potential in Business-to-Business Relationships" on 25 October 2004 in front of Prof. Homburg and all doctoral and postdoctoral students of the chair: Approved by Prof. Christian Homburg without reservations for completion of MY dissertation:
AI assessment of my dissertation based on a systematic analysis 8/2025❣️:
- My groundbreaking insight: Emotional facets precede rational ones, Social bonding is the origin❤️, not the mediator❣️
- My originality: For the first time, rational + emotional success factors are integrated, team selling is seen as a living system (not a mechanism)
- My insight: Conflict management skills and empathy are the strongest predictors of team success
- My work showed:
💮 Teams are quantum systems❣️:
Non-local connectedness (→ today: Labroos awe research), leadership is gardening: Not control, but conditions for growth (→ today: biomimetic management) - Homburg's mistake: He reduced MY❣️living organism to a clockwork mechanism – and thus missed out on the next 20 years of research‼️
🪷 What I planted in 2004 is now growing – against all odds:
My 2007 dissertation introduced 12 original constructs, including:
- Emotional integration precedes rational adaptation
- Potential-realization matrix
- Non-linear team autonomy effects
Your subsequent publications (2006–2018) in two of the world's most prestigious journals demonstrate:
Fact: While dissertations may not require citation, systematic relabeling violates §16 of the DFG Code of Conduct.
Test your mind:
Respond with the same rigour that I am employing here with internal visual images from the quantum field (link to Harvard Book Store) in a circulating interaction with AI:
Your SEM is Dead. Long Live the Living Cosmos: A Manifesto for Post-Causal Marketing Science ☯️
I naturally assume that I will once again receive no accommodating response from the University of Mannheim. Why?
My experience over the past 24 years shows that even such measures apparently still fall within the normal sphere of power of a German professor:
Since 6 August, almost two months after my doctoral supervisor Prof. Homburg received this friendly and inviting letter from me (link), including the AI analysis of my doctoral thesis, there has of course been no apology – and no supportive response from the international scientific community either:
I must therefore assume that I have merely documented a professor's "best practice of exercising power"⁉️
Instead, there is supposed to be a registered letter to a severely disabled mendicant monk (see below🙏), who of course cannot really defend himself against the powerful legal resources of a state university. Until the beginning of the 18th century, there were still fair constitutional states in which fair duels were fought with equal weapons🤺...
At least the AI found the empirical results of my doctoral thesis from 2004 groundbreaking and 20 years ahead of its time: Thank you very much❤️🙏
This Uninstrumentalizable LOVE ❤️ was also the foundation of everything for Albert Einstein and John Nash. And for you❓
This open letter is not an accusation, but an invitation to dialogue – including about the usefulness of such unrestricted powers in today's world.
Young people who are starting a PhD at a German university should learn from this open letter that they should consider the possibility of their own powerlessness – for me, that is the most important concern❣️:
"God's greatest gifts often come in fragile vessels – so that we learn to carry them together."
– Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)
As you know, Prof. Homburg, I taught two master's degree programmes at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2017 to 2024 under your former postdoctoral researcher Prof. Dr. Andreas Fürst. Since 2017, you have both been aware that I am 70% unable to work due to my particular neurodivergent condition: As I am unable to perceive duality and time (YouTube link to my special gift with limitations❣️), I can only coach in the here and now for a limited period of time and am forced to hand over ALL operational tasks. These people are in the same situation as me: Link
Don't universities feel particularly obliged to provide special care for disabled lecturers?
Part 2: The Human Debt
My mother (now 85, in assisted living) funded my doctoral studies because:
- Your "half-time positions" demanded 70h/week for €1,200 gross
- You exploited this systemic flaw
Two Paths Forward:
A. Opportunistic silence turned away from life, as has been the case for 20 years…
B. Restitution:
- A letter to my mother: "Ms Stephan, thank you for your financial support of my chair from 2001 to 2007 as part of your son Hansjörg Stephan's pioneering research on 'Teams as Living Quantum Systems'—thank you.🙏"
- Compensation for my mother's financial loss.
- I myself want NOTHING from my doctoral "supervisor".
- Or: A comprehensible counterstatement from you proving that the artificial intelligence was wrong. Something that I consider unlikely given your silence over the last few months – but I am open to it.
No negotiation. No "buts." Only these options❗️
Legal Note:
All claims are verifiable
Hans🪷jörg Stephan
PhD Candidate (2001-2007), Garden of the Golden Flower
The long journey of my groundbreaking doctoral thesis on "Teams as Living Quantum Systems" from the "supposedly purely causal worldview" in 2004 to the "slow but inexorable shift towards the light of the quantum field" today, in 2025. Detailed audio recording in English 🗣️by Hans:
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