Dorthe Helen Næss Eide

Dorthe Eide is professor in organization and management at Nord University Business School in Norway. Her education at bachelor and master level (now University of South-Eastern Norway) was within business management, with major on management, marketing and ICT. Her master thesis on learning and innovation environment in public sector (high school, teacher focus). She holds a Doctor Polit degree from University of Tromsø, her dissertation about knowing, learning and innovation in SMBs (hotels) from a practicebased approach. Dorthe manage the research group Marketing, Management and Innovation of Experiences (MMIE), which are interfacultary. She work interdisplinary and transdisciplinary, mainly with qualitative methods, including interactive innovation and research. Empirically she mainly study service and experience sectors, but mostly experience sectors (nature, culture and food/meals). Main topics are innovation and value co-creation, including network- and labdriven learning and innovation, testing in innovation, as well experience design, -quality, -consumption and -management. Increasingly also sustainability at product, organization, destination and community level, including destination and visitor management. She has participated in, and managed, several smaller and some larger research and innovations projects. E.g. larger are Northern Insight (www.opplevelserinord.no), and Research based national quality system for experiencebased tourism. She has published in journals such as European Urban and Regional Studies; Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management; Journal of Consumer Behaviour; Tourism Management; Tourism and Hospitality Research; Scandinavioun Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, European Planning Studies. As well as in handbooks such as the 'Handbook of Research on Innovation in Tourism Industries' and the 'Handbook on the Experience Economy'. See links. She has co-edited, coordinated tracks, and managed research conferences. She often is main speaker in applied conferences and workshops, and work regularly with the tourism and culture industries. She holds several positions in boards.