mjmsc

Department of Management, Society and Communication

  • CBS Sustainability Centre
Meike
Janssen
Associate professor


Room: DH.Ø.2.59
Tel:
+4538153229
E-mail: mj.msc@cbs.dk
Meike Janssen
Presentation

My research focuses on consumer behaviour in the field of sustainable consumption, in particular food consumption. I am interested in marketing instruments and policy interventions for fostering sustainable consumption, e.g. product labelling, third-party certification, and other elements of the choice architecture in retail environments. My expertise covers various food-related topics, especially organic food, plant-based food and reduced meat consumption, local food, healthy eating, animal welfare standards, and sustainable food packaging.

I am a member of the Consumer and Behavioural Insights Group (CBIG) at the CBS Sustainability Centre.

Before coming to CBS, I was working at the Department of Agricultural and Food Marketing at the University of Kassel, Germany. I have a background in consumer behaviour, marketing, business administration, and policy studies.

 

Projects

PlantPro – Accelerating an efficient green consumer transition

This large project funded by Innovationsfund Denmark aims at fostering the transition towards more plant-rich diets and the avoidance of food waste among consumers in Denmark. It is a collaboration between CBS, Aarhus University, Copenhagen University, and more than ten actors from the Danish food sector.
 

EU-project VISIONARY - Food Provision through Sustainable Farming Systems and Value Chains

This Horizon Europe project aims to make a difference in food system transitions, by identifying what factors underlie the path dependencies and ‘lock-ins’ in current unsustainable food systems, and showing how these can be overcome.

I lead the work package on ‘Value chain initiatives and business models’ and I am responsible for generating consumer insights on how to promote food from sustainable, climate-neutral and biodiversity-friendly farming systems.

The 4-year project is funded with 23 mio. DKK (CBS share 2.2 mio. DKK) and involves partners from 8 European countries.


I was also part of two corona-related research projects:

Primary research areas
  • Consumer behaviour
  • Sustainable consumption
  • Marketing for sustainable products
  • Consumer policy
  • Behavioural economics
Social media
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Courses
  • Consumer Insights and Behavioural Studies, obligatory Bachelor course in HA MAK
  • The Sustainability of Food Systems, Master, Elective
  • Marketing - The Essentials and the Trend Drivers, Bachelor, Elective (Course Coordinator)
  • Business in a changing  world: German perspectives, Master
Supervision

Business in a changing  world: German perspectives, Master

Selected publications

Meike Janssen; Betty P. I. Chang; Hristo Hristov; Igor Pravst; Adriano Profeta; Jeremy Millard (2021). Changes in Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of Consumer Survey Data From the First Lockdown Period in Denmark, Germany, and Slovenia. Frontiers in Nutrition, Vol. 8, 8.3.2021

Meike Ketelsen; Meike Janssen; Ulrich Hamm (2020). Consumers’ Response to Environmentally-friendly Food Packaging : A Systematic Review. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 254, 5.2020

Janssen, M. (2018). Determinants of organic food purchases: Evidence from household panel data. Food Quality and Preference 68:19-28.

Janssen, M., Busch, C., Rödiger, M. and Hamm, U. (2016). Motives of consumers following a vegan diet and their attitudes towards animal agriculture. Appetite 105:643-651.

Janssen, M. and Hamm, U. (2012). Product labelling in the market for organic food: Consumer preferences and willingness-to-pay for different organic certification logos. Food Quality and Preference 25(1):9-22.

Publications List
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2022
Jeremy Millard; Alberto Sturla; Zdeňka Smutná; Meike Janssen; Jan Vávra / European Food Systems in a Regional Perspective : A Comparative Study of the Effect of COVID-19 on Households and City-Region Food Systems.
In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol. 6, 14.4.2022
Journal article > peer review
Hristo Hristov; Jeremy Millard; Igor Pravst; Meike Janssen / European Household Spending and Socio-economic Impacts on Food Behavior during the First Wave of COVID-19
In: Frontiers in Nutrition, Vol. 9, 2022
Journal article > peer review
Jessica Aschemann-Witzel; Meike Janssen / The Role of Policy Actions to Accelerate Food Consumer Behaviour Change
In: Agricultural and Food Economics, Vol. 10, 2022, 3 p.
Editorial
Klaus G. Grunert; Meike Janssen; Rikke Nyland Christensen; Lauranna Teunissen; Isabelle Cuykx; Paulien Decorte; Lucia A. Reisch / “Corona Cooking” : The Interrelation between Emotional Response to the First Lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Cooking Attitudes and Behaviour in Denmark.
In: Food Quality and Preference, Vol. 96, 3.2022
Journal article > peer review
2021
Charlotte De Backer; Lauranna Teunissen; Isabelle Cuykx; Paulien Decorte; Sara Pabian; Sarah Gerristen; Christophe Matthys; Haleama Al Sabbah; Kathleen Van Royen; ; Klaus G. Grunert; Rikke Nyland Christensen; Lucia A. Reisch; Meike Janssen / An Evaluation of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Perceived Social Distancing Policies in Relation to Planning, Selecting, and Preparing Healthy Meals : An Observational Study in 38 Countries Worldwide.
In: Frontiers in Nutrition, Vol. 7, 2021
Journal article > peer review
Meike Janssen; Betty P. I. Chang; Hristo Hristov; Igor Pravst; Adriano Profeta; Jeremy Millard / Changes in Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Analysis of Consumer Survey Data From the First Lockdown Period in Denmark, Germany, and Slovenia.
In: Frontiers in Nutrition, Vol. 8, 8.3.2021
Journal article > peer review
Isabel Schäufele; Meike Janssen / How and Why Does the Attitude-behavior Gap Differ Between Product Categories of Sustainable Food? : Analysis of Organic Food Purchases Based on Household Panel Data.
In: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 12, 16.2.2021
Journal article > peer review
2020
Meike Ketelsen ; Meike Janssen; Ulrich Hamm / Consumers’ Response to Environmentally-friendly Food Packaging : A Systematic Review.
In: Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 254, 5.2020
Review article > peer review
Meike Janssen; Isabel Schäufele; Katrin Zander / Target Groups for Organic Wine : The Importance of Segmentation Analysis.
In: Food Quality and Preference, Vol. 79, 1.2020
Journal article > peer review
2019
Manika Rödiger; Enrique Garcia Moreno-Esteva; Meike Janssen; Ulrich Hamm / A Sequence Analysis of Organic and Conventional Food Consumers’ Visual Information Acquisition
In: Future of food: journal on food, agriculture and society., Vol. 7, No. 2/3, 2019, p. 1-11
Journal article > peer review
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