Business Administration (FEK)

Business Administration is a division at the department of Management and Engineering. The division offers education on undergraduate, masters, and PhD levels, and is an active research environment.

The division Business Administration is divided into three units:

  • The unit for Marketing
  • The unit for Strategy and Organization
  • The unit for Accounting, Auditing and Finance

Contact us

General Information and Contact for Students

Study Advisers

Staff

Address

Visiting address

Division of Business Administration
Hans Meijers väg
A Building, entrance 17-19
Campus Valla
Linköping, Sweden

Postal address

Linköping University
Department of Management and Engineering
Division of Business Administration
SE-581 83 Linköping
Sweden

Organisation

Education

Single-subject courses

Business Administration 1, 30 credits

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Business Administration 2, 30 credits

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Business Administration 3 - Marketing Management, 30 credits

This course consists of three parts. The first part, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour 7,5 ECTS credits, centers on the processes and activities consumers engage in when acting on today’s markets. The second part, Service Management and Marketing 7...

We educate business and management students who have proven to be highly attractive in the job market, with a good reputation both in terms of knowledge and competence, ambition, and social skills. We offer education through our two business administration programs (one of them with language specializations), our single-subject courses, and our international masters- and bachelor programs. The education offers a dynamic and international study environment, with a large offer of courses taught in English for incoming students, and a large network of partner universities all over the world where our students can go for studies abroad. 

Programmes

Research

The division has an active and dynamic research environment, with research that spans over the complex and multifaceted subject business administration. The research at the division contributes within mainly four areas:

  • Accounting, auditing and finance;
  • Marketing and innovation;
  • Management control, knowledge and projects;
  • Entrepreneurial organization and entrepreneurship. 


Apart from this, several of our researchers contribute in interdisciplinary research projects and research programs both within LiU and in collaboration with other Swedish and international universities.

Publications

2024

Tamer Elsheikh, Faozi A. Almaqtari, Najib H. S. Farhan, Nandita Mishra, Abdou Ahmed Ettish (2024) Governance and sustainability: The role of environmental disclosures and board characteristics in environmental, social, and governance reporting Journal of Governance and Regulation, Vol. 13, p. 162-176 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sofia Pemsel, Jonas Söderlund (2024) Governance and Creativity in Project-Based Organizations: Archetypes and Agenda for Future Research Project Management Journal (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Marie Bengtsson, Johanna Wallen Axehill, Erik Herzog (2024) When Moving Backward Means Moving Forward: Educating Systems Engineers in Designerly Ways of Thinking INCOSE International Symposium, p. 649-663 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Robert Demir (2024) Strategising Underground Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice (Chapter in book)
Robert Demir (2024) Frontline Strategy Work Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice (Chapter in book)
Maria Eidenskog, Réka Andersson, Wiktoria Glad (2024) Workshops as a Relational Material Research Practice: Creating Space for Shared Knowledge International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol. 23, Article 16094069241297427 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Hugo Guyader, Brenda Nansubuga, Christian Kowalkowski (2024) Navigating the Access Economy: Purchase Intentions Despite Rental Satisfaction
Valeriia Lastovetskaia, Jelena Kurilova-Palisaitiene, Hugo Guyader, Lars Witell, Jasenko Flodin Arsenovic, Camilla Strömbäck, Anders Lundkvist (2024) Buying used and remanufactured products instead of brand-new ones: What really matters for consumers
Hugo Guyader, Pia A. Albinsson (2024) A Cross-Cultural Study of Carpoolers: USA, France and Sweden
Hugo Guyader (2024) Sharing economy: tensions in renting others' possessions International Journal of Law in Context (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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