NORDIC CONSUMER POLICY RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2007

TOWARDS A NEW CONSUMER? TOWARDS A NEW CONSUMER POLICY?

Venue: Helsinki, October 3-5, 2007

Organizers: The Nordic Forum for Consumer Research

Local arrangements: The National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki, with the support of the Finnish Ministry for Trade and Industry

The programme will consist of

· Presentations by invited key speakers from research and policy-making

· Papers presented by consumer researchers

· Special sessions where researchers and policy-makers will jointly discuss selected current topics within consumer policy and research

By this call, we invite you to submit papers to the conference.

To secure a broad coverage of relevant topics, the organizers have put together a preliminary list of conference themes, most of which we hope to cover during the event.

For these areas, a number of scholars from the Nordic countries have agreed to function as conveners. They are listed below, together with the specific themes. The conveners will be jointly responsible with the Nordic Forum for the peer review and selection of the papers to be presented and will seek to organize sessions in which practitioners and researchers debate the policy issues involved.

Please note, however, that you are of course also welcome to submit a paper within other areas of research relevant to consumer policy than those listed in the list of themes.

Furthermore, if you would like to organize a special session with a number of contributions focusing on a particular topic, then please contact the Programme Committee Chairman (see below).

Proposals for roundtable discussions are also encouraged. Such sessions will offer opportunities to discuss policy issues, current topics, or future research agendas. They are especially targeted at stimulating discussion between policy-makers and researchers.

Via the Internet, accepted papers will be made available to all participants before the conference. Papers as well as presentations at the conference must be in English.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Abstracts of individual papers as well as proposals for special sessions have to be submitted no later than March 1, 2007. Authors will be notified of acceptance no later than May 1, 2007.

Abstracts should comprise approximately 500 words. Indicate the conference theme – if any – to which your paper is best allocated. Please make sure to include contact details (name, institutional affiliation, telephone number and e-mail address).

For accepted abstracts, full versions of the papers (10 to 20 pages) will have to be submitted no later than August 31, 2007.

Submit abstracts electronically, as e-mail attachments in Word format, to

Professor Folke Ölander, The Aarhus School of Business, Denmark (Chairman of the Programme Committee), e-mail: [email protected]

Dr Herdís D Baldvinsdóttir, Research Coordinator, The Nordic Forum for Consumer Research, e-mail: [email protected]

and in addition, if you regard your contribution as falling within one of the themes included in the enclosed list, to the convener(s) responsible for the theme.

If you so wish, the convener(s) will be happy to comment on the suitability of a given topic for the session(s) they will lead.

THE NORDIC FORUM FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH

Denmark: Professor Folke Ölander, Dr. Inge Røpke
Finland: Professor Jukka Gronow, Professor Eila Kilpiö
Iceland: Dr. Thorvardur Árnason
Norway: Dr. Ellen K. Nyhus, Director of Research Eivind Stø
Sweden: Dr. Karin Ekström, Professor Gunilla Jarlbro

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THEMES FOR THE NORDIC CONFERENCE AND RESPONSIBLE CONVENERS

Theme 1. Ageing consumers
Conveners:
Helene Brembeck, Centre for Consumer Science, Göteborg University ([email protected])
Johanna Leskinen, National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki ([email protected])

Theme 2. Children and teenagers as consumers
Conveners:
Birgitte Tufte, Centre for Marketing Communication, Copenhagen School of Business ([email protected])
Terhi-Anna Wilska, Department of Economic Sociology, Turku School of Economics ([email protected])

Theme 3. Competition, (de)regulation, and consumer behaviour
Conveners:
Ville Aalto-Setälä. Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki ([email protected])
Tommy Gärling, Department of Psychology, Göteborg University ([email protected])
Lars Norén, Department of Business Administration, Göteborg University ([email protected])

Theme 4. Consumer culture
Conveners:
Søren Askegaard and Dannie Kjeldgaard, Department of Marketing & Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense ([email protected]; [email protected])
Liisa Uusitalo, Department of Marketing, Helsinki School of Economics ([email protected])
Anu Valtonen, Faculty of Business and Tourism, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi ([email protected])

Theme 5. Consumers and new technology
Conveners:
Petteri Repo, National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki ([email protected])
Inge Røpke, Department of Manufacturing Engineering & Management, Technical University of Denmark ([email protected])

Theme 6. Consumers in financial markets
Conveners:
Raija Järvinen, National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki ([email protected])
Ellen Katrine Nyhus, School of Management, Agder University College, Kristiansand ([email protected])

Theme 7. Consumers’ well-being and satisfaction
Conveners:
Anu Raijas, National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki ([email protected])
Eivind Stø, National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo ([email protected])

Theme 8. Design and fashion in consumption
Conveners:
Ilpo Koskinen, Industrial Design Department, University of Art and Design, Helsinki ([email protected])
Magnus Mörck, Centre for Consumer Science, Göteborg University ([email protected])

Theme 9. Family consumption patterns and time use
Conveners:
Mikko Jalas, Department of Organization and Management, Helsinki School of Economics ([email protected])
Johanna Varjonen, National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki ([email protected])

Theme 10. Food, market and politics
Conveners:
Jukka Gronow, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University ([email protected])
Johanna Mäkelä, National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki ([email protected])

Theme 11. Housing and consumption
Conveners:
Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Danish Building Research Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark ([email protected])
Örjan Svane, School of Architecture of the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm ([email protected])

Theme 12. Inequality in consumption (including ethnicity and gender issues)
Conveners:
Jens Bonke, The Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen ([email protected])
Veli-Matti Ritakallio, Department of Social Policy, University of Turku
([email protected])

Theme 13. Political consumption
Conveners:
Magnus Boström, SCORE, Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics ([email protected])
Visa Heinonen, Department of Economics & Management, University of Helsinki ([email protected])

Theme 14. Public and private services
Convener:
Helena Tuorila, National Consumer Research, Helsinki ([email protected])

Theme 15. Sustainable consumption
Conveners:
Eva Heiskanen, National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki ([email protected])
Eivind Stø, National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo ([email protected])

Theme 16. The role of consumers in innovation policies
Convener:
Petteri Repo, National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki ([email protected])