Kati Suomi
kati.suomi@utu.fi +358 50 520 0790 Pohjoisranta 11 A Pori ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2502-2885 |
Kati Suomi is an Associate Professor (tenure track) of Marketing at the Turku School of Economics, University of Turku (Pori Unit), where she also serves as Vice Director of the unit. Since 2020, she has held the title of Docent (Adjunct Professor) at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University.
Kati is currently examining topics such as entrepreneurial marketing and brand building, and consumers’ brand relationships. Her research has been published in academic journals including the Journal of Business Research, Tourism Management, European Journal of Marketing, among others.
She collaborates extensively internationally in her research and has conducted research visits to the University of Valencia and the University of Urbino.
Kati is an experienced educator with long teaching experience from University of Turku. She is responsible for major of marketing at Pori unit of Turku School of Economics. She teaches marketing courses and supervises Master's and doctoral theses.
Kati enjoys collaborating with companies and other organizations in the areas of teaching, research, and development projects. Feel free to get in touch regarding cooperation!
- Unraveling mechanisms of value co-creation in festivals (2019)
- Event Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Virtual brand communities as enablers of festival brand co-creation (extended abstract,14th Global Brand Conference; Berlin, May 8–10, 2019 ) (2019) Mervi Luonila, Kati Suomi, Marjo Mäenpää
(Other publication) - Antecedents and consequences of destination brand love - A case study from Finnish Lapland (2018)
- Tourism Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Asiantuntijoiden johtaminen - Tietoa ja taktiikkaa (2018) Mervi Vähätalo, Maarit Laiho, Salla Siivonen, Susanna Jänismäki, Kati Suomi, Reeta Hautaniemi, Marja-Riitta Sillanpää, Jenni Huhtasalo, Jaana Määttälä
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - European Consumer Complaint Behaviour In The Financial Sector (2018)
- Journal of Research for Consumers
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Institutional logics and efficiency pressures in public organizations: what about the healthcare sector? (2018) EurOMA 2018 Book of Abstracts Mervi Vähätalo, Tomi J. Kallio, Maarit Laiho, Kati Suomi, Terhi Tevameri
(Other publication) - Antecedents and consequences of destination brand love – Case Ylläs (2017) roceedings of the Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality International Conference HTHIC 2017 Kaisa Aro, Kati Suomi, Saila Saraniemi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Brand Ecosystem Narratives in Cultural Heritage and Tourism Networks (2017) Proceedings of the Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality International Conference HTHIC 2017 Lemmetyinen Arja, Nieminen Lenita, Lepistö Tanja, Suomi Kati
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Branding a University: effectiveness of internal branding activities on mid level administrators and Deans (2017)
- Special conference series : Academy of Marketing Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Ironic festival branding (2017) The 24th Nordic Academy of Management Conference Kati Suomi, Mervi Luonila, Jaana Tähtinen
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