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Erik L. Olson

Professor of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School
Verified email at bi.no
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It's not easy being green: the effects of attribute tradeoffs on green product preference and choice

EL Olson - Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2013 - Springer
Despite widespread pro-green attitudes, consumers frequently purchase non-green alternatives.
One possible explanation for this value–action gap is the tradeoffs that green products …

Implementing the lead user method in a high technology firm: A longitudinal study of intentions versus actions

EL Olson, G Bakke - … an international publication of the product …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The customer or user's role in the new product development process is limited or nonexistent
in many high technology firms, despite evidence that suggests customers are frequently an …

Does sponsorship work in the same way in different sponsorship contexts?

EL Olson - European Journal of Marketing, 2010 - emerald.com
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive model of high‐level
sponsorship effects that works well in both sports and cultural sponsorship contexts. Design/…

The deterministic nature of earthquake rupture

EL Olson, RM Allen - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Understanding the earthquake rupture process is central to our understanding of fault systems
and earthquake hazards. Multiple hypotheses concerning the nature of fault rupture have …

Explaining and articulating the fit construct in sponsorship

EL Olson, HM Thjømøe - Journal of advertising, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The fit between a sponsor and object (ie, sponsored organization, cause, event, or individual)
has been shown to be an important construct in predicting sponsorship effects, but little …

Sponsorship effect metric: assessing the financial value of sponsoring by comparisons to television advertising

EL Olson, H Mathias Thjømøe - Journal of the Academy of Marketing …, 2009 - Springer
Since sponsoring is an increasingly important marketing communication medium, it is
important for managers to know whether their sponsorships are giving a good financial return …

The effects of peripheral exposure to information on brand preference

EL Olson, H Mathias Thjømøe - European Journal of Marketing, 2003 - emerald.com
In this article, brand evaluations based on mere exposure to a brand name are compared to
evaluations built on varying levels of cognitively processed brand information in a setting …

Decision-making processes surrounding sponsorship activities

HM Thjømøe, EL Olson… - Journal of …, 2002 - journalofadvertisingresearch.com
The rationale behind sponsoring is as varied as the definitions of sponsorship itself. A
logical approach to sponsorship decision making would dictate that firms should have clear …

[HTML][HTML] 'Sustainable'marketing mixes and the paradoxical consequences of good intentions

EL Olson - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Global resource use and related emissions continue to rise despite decades of public and
private sector marketing efforts to encourage more sustainable consumption. One question …

The rationalization and persistence of organic food beliefs in the face of contrary evidence

EL Olson - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
Surveys generally find the most common consumer rationale for adopting organic foods is a
positive belief regarding personal health benefits. The current research examines the …