Employee Profile

Nina Marianne Iversen

Professor

Campus Bergen, Department of Marketing

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Biography

Nina M. Iversen started her carrier at NHH in 1995. In 1999, she finished the Cand. merc. at the Institute of Marketing, NHH. She received her dr. oecon in marketing in 2003. She then worked in a post. doc. position at NHH, and became an associate professor at NHH in January 2007. From 1995 she has also been employed as a senior researcher at SNF. Iversen now work full time as a full professor at BI (since 2012), and has a 20% position at HVL. She has published several articles in the Journal of Business Research and International Marketing Review, contributed to book chapters on eco-food marketing and place branding. She has been leader of and responsible for a number of NFR financed research projects within the field of international marketing, eco-food and place branding, visitor behavior and destination marketing. Her research focus is on consumer behavior and brand management in general and on brand extensions, country-of-origin effects and place branding in particular. The methodological focus covers different techniques within both qualitative as well as quantitative approaches such as experiments and SEM. The teaching obligations at BI relates to international marketing, marketing management, tourism marketing and experiential marketing.

Publications

Shows 5 of 20 publication(s)

Article Stefan Gössling, Andreas Humpe, Kristin Løseth, Hans Jakob Walnum, Ya-Yen Sun, Sara Dolnicar, Ove Oklevik, Leif Egil Hem, Nina Marianne Iversen (2025)

Economic leakage to reservation platforms: Norway

Annals of Tourism Research Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2025.103957

Article Nina Marianne Iversen, Carmel Foley, Leif Egil Hem (2023)

THE ROLE OF IMMERSIVE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCES, IDENTITY, AND MEMORY IN CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM

Event Management 27(1) p. 33-50 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948694847

Article Ya-Yen Sun, Stefan Gössling, Leif Egil Hem, Nina Marianne Iversen, Hans Jakob Walnum, Daniel Scott, Ove Oklevik (2022)

Can Norway become a net-zero economy under scenarios of tourism growth?

Journal of Cleaner Production 363 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132414

Article Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem (2021)

Fra statiske til dynamiske merker i en digital opplevelseskontekst

Magma forskning og viten p. 46-56

Article Leif Egil Hem, Nina Marianne Iversen (2020)

Merkelogoen som virkemiddel for å utvikle sterke merker

Magma forskning og viten p. 68-76

Article Leif Egil Hem, Nina Marianne Iversen (2019)

Hvordan påvirker været vårt forbruk?

Magma forskning og viten 22(4) p. 23-32

Article Jens Kristian Steen Jacobsen, Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem (2019)

Hotspot crowding and over-tourism: Antecedents of destination attractiveness

Annals of Tourism Research 76 p. 53-66 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.02.011

Beta – Scandinavian Journal of Business Research 32(2) p. 204-233 Doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-3134-2018-02-05

Article Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem (2018)

Spredning av delingstjenester

Magma forskning og viten p. 37-46

Article Aleksandrs Jakubanecs, Alexander Fedorikhin, Nina Marianne Iversen (2018)

Consumer responses to hedonic food products: Healthy cake or indulgent cake? Could dialecticism be the answer?

Journal of Business Research 91 p. 221-232 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.06.016

Conference abstract Natalia Mæhle, Cele Otnes, Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem (2017)

Towards a New Framework of Eco-Food Consumption: The Importance of Contextual Drivers.

Advances in Consumer Research 45 p. 766-767

Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing 33 p. 38-66 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10548408.2014.998359

Article Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem (2016)

Markedsføring og delingsøkonomi : muligheter og utfordringer

Magma forskning og viten 19(6) p. 49-59

Academic book Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem, Bjørn Kåre Myskja, Tor-Henning Iversen (2015)

Norske Matvarer - Verdier, muligheter og utfordringer

Fagbokforlaget

Norske Matvarer - Verdier, muligheter og utfordringer p. 206-229

Article Natalia Mæhle, Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem, Cele Otnes (2015)

Exploring consumer preferences for hedonic and utilitarian food attributes

British Food Journal 117(12) p. 3039-3063 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-04-2015-0148

Article Leif Egil Hem, Nina M. Iversen, Lars Erling Olsen (2014)

Category characteristics' effects on brand extension attitudes: A research note

Journal of Business Research 67(8) p. 1589-1594 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.10.002

Article Rafael Bravo, Nina M. Iversen, Jose M Pina (2011)

Expansion strategies for online brands going offline

Marketing Intelligence & Planning 29(2) p. 195-213 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/02634501111117629

International Marketing Review 28(4-5) p. 365-411 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/02651331111149949

European Journal of Marketing 42(5-6) p. 603-626 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/03090560810862534

Shows 2 of 2 publication(s)

Feature article Nina Marianne Iversen, Elin Bolann, Leif Egil Hem (2006)

Norges omdømme.

Feature article Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem, Elin Bolann (2004)

Merkevaren Vestlandet.

Shows 5 of 15 publication(s)

Report Veronica Blumenthal, Iratxe Landa-Mata, Nina M. Iversen, Leif E. Hem, Rasmus Bøgh Holmen, Bjørg Langset Flotve, Christin Krohn (2023)

Evaluering av Fjord Norge AS

Transportøkonomisk institutt

Report Veronica Blumenthal, Eivind Farstad, Jan Vidar Haukeland, Leif Egil Hem, Nina Marianne Iversen, Merethe Lerfald, Windy Moe, Kristine Blekastad Sagheim (2022)

CreaTur – Delingsøkonomi i Innlandet

Høgskolen i Innlandet

Report Hans Jakob Walnum, Stefan Gössling, Morten Simonsen, Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem, Petter Dybedal, Jens Kristian Steen Jacobsen (2019)

Sustainable cruises: Understanding and optimizing people, planet and profit - Oppsummering og synteserapport

Vestlandsforsking

Conference lecture Nina Marianne Iversen, Elin Bolann, Leif Egil Hem (2019)

Self-congruence and Novelty as Drivers in Adventure Tourism.

Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies Conference (ANZMAC) 2019

The 7th International Adventure Conference 2019

Conference lecture Nina Marianne Iversen, Elin Bolann, Leif Egil Hem (2019)

The Role of Novelty among Soft- and Hard Adventure Tourists.

Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies Conference (ANZMAC) 2019

Conference lecture Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem, Jens Kristian Steen Jacobsen (2018)

Perceived Crowding and Tourism: Promotion and Prevention Reactions

ICIBIR Conference

Conference lecture Jens Kristian Steen Jacobsen, Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem (2018)

Perceptions of people density in tourism destinations

27th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research

Conference lecture Nina Marianne Iversen, Elin Bolann, Leif Egil Hem (2018)

Understanding the Role of the Self in Defining Motivations of the Adventure Tourist Traveller.

The 6th International Adventure Conference 2018

Turisme: Destinasjonsutvikling

Introduction Nina Marianne Iversen, Leif Egil Hem, Bjørn Kåre Myskja, Tor-Henning Iversen (2015)

Hovedmål og delmål i Eco-prosjektet

Norske Matvarer - Verdier, muligheter og utfordringer p. 11-22

Book chapter Nina Marianne Iversen (2015)

Merkevarebygging i turismesektoren

Regional merkevarebygging p. 55-78

Conference lecture Leif Egil Hem, Nina Marianne Iversen, Elin Bolann (2008)

The Host of Brand Extensions

Latin American Advances in Consumer Research

Thought Leaders International Conference on Brand Management

Conference lecture Lars Erling Olsen, Nina M. Iversen, Leif Egil Hem (2007)

Feedback Effects of Brand Extensions: Are Flagship Products Less Vulnerable?

Johan Arndts Markedsføringskonferanse

Academic Degrees
Year Academic Department Degree
2003 Norwegian School of Economics, NHH Ph.D Dr. Oecon.
1999 Norwegian School of Economics Master Cand. Merc.
1995 University of Surrey Master of Science
Work Experience
Year Employer Job Title
2017 - Present Høyskolen på Vestlandet Professor
2013 - Present BI Norwegian Business School Professor
2012 - Present Buskerud University College (HIBU) Professor
2008 - 2015 Samfunns- og Næringslivsforskning (SNF) Senior Researcher
2006 - 2010 NFR-prosjektet Allianse Vest, SNF Project leader
2007 - 2008 Norwegian School of Economics, NHH Associate Professor
2005 - 2007 Norwegian School of Economics, NHH Post.doc
2005 - 2006 BI Norwegian Business School Lecturer
2003 - 2004 Samfunns- og Næringslivsforskning (SNF) Researcher
1999 - 2003 Norwegian School of Economics, NHH PhD candidate
1998 - 1999 Samfunns- og Næringslivsforskning (SNF) Project co-worker
1996 - 1997 Possibility A.S. Project leader
1996 - 1996 Grand Hotell Terminus Manager of conference department
1995 - 1996 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Plantebiosenteret Project co-worker