Employee photo: Frank Lindberg

Frank Lindberg

Head of Division
Nord University Business School
Study location
Bodø
Office
HHB CAA234
Areas of expertise
Marketing, Tourism, Sustainable development, Experience industries, Organized research training (doctoral programme), Business and industry, Marketing, Organisation and Leadership Division, Consumer Research, Tourism Experiences, Marketing Experience, Branding

Frank Lindberg, Ph.D, is Professor of marketing at Nord University Business School. He has MSc in marketing and consumer research from University of South-East Norway (1990) and PhD from Copenhagen Business School (2001). Lindberg has previously been Vice Dean and Dean at Bodø Grad. School of Business (2003-2011) and Program Director, PhD in Business at Nord University Business School (2018-2021). He has a research stay at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (1997), and was Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley, USA (2012), University of Southern Denmark (2015) and has worked at University of Gothenburg (2016-17). His research covers areas such as experience marketing, tourism marketing, consumer research especially related to Consumer Culture Theory (CCT), and brand myths and value. He has recently been working on the Research Council of Norway funded project "Northern Insight-Experiences in the High North" where he was leading sub projects on Extraordinary consumer experiences. He is currently Head of Division for Marketing, Organization and Leadership (MOL).

I'm teaching in bachelor's programs on marketing and consumption of experiences, master's programs on branding and consumer marketing, advanced marketing and global perspectives, and PhD on consumer culture theory and research design and scientific methods.


I'm supervising students on bachelor, master og PhD levels. Currently I'm supervising three PhD students:


Asif Ijaz "Consumer experiences in multi-cultural contexts"


Pamela Ogada "Immigrant Market Formation"


Adrian Kristiansen "Digital Virtual Consumption"

I'm member of two research groups under the Division Marketing, Organization, Leadership (MOL) Marketing, Management and Innovation of Experiences (MMIE) og International Marketing.


In 2022 we arranged an international research conference in Bodø CIMaR2022, on the topic: Sustainable International Business Strategies and Practices. This conference was postpone from 2020 to 2022 due to the corona epidemic.


In August 2024 we will host the Network on Nordic Consumer Culture in Bodø.


For more information, see


Division Marketing, Organization, Leadership (MOL)

2019
Consumption failures: An emergent research project 2019, Kjeldgaard, Dannie; Lindberg, Frank; Mossberg, Lena
Consumption (of) Failure 2019, Kjeldgaard, Dannie; Mikkel, Nøjgaard; Hartmann, Benjamin; Lindberg, Frank; Mossberg, Lena; Østberg, Jacob
2008
2006
Perspektiver på entreprenørskap 2006, Cappelen Damm Høyskoleforlaget: Våge, Magne; Våge, Magne; Bjerkås, Trygve; Borch, Odd Jarl; Foss, Lene; Hatteland, Øystein
2005
Therapeutic aspects of consumption 2005, Dammen, Hege; Lindberg, Frank