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Overview

Svein Ottar Olsen is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. They specialize in research at the intersection of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Psychology, with a focus on marketing and consumer behavior.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Psychology

Within these fields, their subfields of study focus on:

  • Marketing
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Food Science

Olsen's research topics cover a range of areas, notably in consumer behavior and sustainability, including:

  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
  • Insect Utilization and Effects

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on consumer psychological well-being, sustainability, and food consumption patterns. Notable papers include:

  • "Progress on novelty in tourism: An integration of personality, attitudinal and emotional theoretical foundations," 2022, Tourism Management
  • "The 'Well-Being' and 'Ill-Being' of Online Impulsive and Compulsive Buying on Life Satisfaction: The Role of Self-Esteem and Harmony in Life," 2021, Journal of Macromarketing
  • "Shopping value, trust, and online shopping well-being: a duality approach," 2020, Marketing Intelligence & Planning
  • "Consumers' values, attitudes and behaviours towards consuming seaweed food products: The effects of perceived naturalness, uniqueness, and behavioural control," 2022, Food Research International
  • "Exploration of seaweed consumption in Norway using the norm activation model: The moderator role of food innovativeness," 2022, Food Quality and Preference

Olsen frequently collaborates with several coauthors, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Ho Huy Tuu
  • Nguyễn Hữu Khôi
  • Florent Govaerts
  • Bjørn Tore Nystrand
  • Ingvild H. Blomstervik

Their work is published across several academic journals, with multiple articles appearing in:

  • Appetite
  • Current Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Tourism Management
  • Journal of Macromarketing

Best Publications

  • Comparative evaluation and the relationship between quality, satisfaction, and repurchase loyalty

    Svein Ottar Olsen

  • Ethical values and motives driving organic food choice

    Pirjo Honkanen;Bas Verplanken;Svein Ottar Olsen

  • Repurchase loyalty: The role of involvement and satisfaction

    Svein Ottar Olsen

  • Understanding the relationship between age and seafood consumption: the mediating role of attitude, health involvement and convenience

    Svein Ottar Olsen

  • Intention to consume seafood—the importance of habit

    Pirjo Honkanen;Svein Ottar Olsen;Bas Verplanken

  • Exploring the relationship between convenience and fish consumption: a cross-cultural study.

    Svein Ottar Olsen;Joachim Scholderer;Karen Brunsø;Wim Verbeke

  • Consumer involvement in seafood as family meals in Norway: an application of the expectancy-value approach.

    S.O Olsen

  • Consequences of Ambivalence on Satisfaction and Loyalty.

    Svein Ottar Olsen;James Wilcox;Ulf Olsson

  • European consumers’ use of and trust in information sources about fish

    Zuzanna Pieniak;Wim Verbeke;Joachim Scholderer;Karen Brunsø

  • Consumers’ attitudes and intentions toward consuming functional foods in Norway

    Bjørn Tore Nystrand;Svein Ottar Olsen

  • Antecedents of Seafood Consumption Behavior: An Overview

    Svein Ottar Olsen

  • The effect of health benefit information on consumers health value, attitudes and intentions.

    Alina Tudoran;Svein Ottar Olsen;Domingo C. Dopico

  • Motives, barriers and quality evaluation in fish consumption situations: Exploring and comparing heavy and light users in Spain and Belgium

    Karen Brunsø;Wim Verbeke;Svein Ottar Olsen;Lisbeth Fruensgaard Jeppesen

  • Impact of consumers' health beliefs, health involvement and risk perception on fish consumption: A study in five European countries

    Zuzanna Pieniak;Wim Verbeke;Joachim Scholderer;Karen Brunsø

  • The moderator effects of perceived risk, objective knowledge and certainty in the satisfaction–loyalty relationship

    Ho Huy Tuu;Svein Ottar Olsen;Pham Thi Thuy Linh

  • Impact of consumers' health beliefs, health involvement and risk perception on fish consumption

    Zuzanna Pieniak;Wim Verbeke;J Scholderer;K Brunsø

  • Export market information use, organizational knowledge, and firm performance

    Kjell Toften;Svein Ottar Olsen

  • The role of norms in explaining attitudes, intention and consumption of a common food (fish) in Vietnam.

    Ho Huy Tuu;Svein Ottar Olsen;Duong Tri Thao;Nguyen Thi Kim Anh

  • Certainty, risk and knowledge in the satisfaction‐purchase intention relationship in a new product experiment

    Ho Huy Tuu;Svein Ottar Olsen

  • Retail attributes' differential effects on utilitarian versus hedonic shopping value

    Svein Ottar Olsen;Kåre Skallerud

Frequent Co-Authors

Bas Verplanken
Bas Verplanken University of Bath

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