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

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Contact us

Head of Division

Research Leader

Director of Studies

Head for the unit for Marketing

Head of the unit for Strategy and Organization

jonas.soderlund@liu.se

Head of the unit for Accounting, Auditing and Finance

General Information and Contact for Students

Study Advisers

Staff

Subhomoy Bandyopadhyay

Associate Professor, Docent

Pernilla Broberg

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Division

Johnny Danell

PhD student

Robert Demir

Senior Associate Professor

Jasenko Flodin Arsenovic

Associate Professor

Per Frankelius

Associate Professor, Docent

Öystein Fredriksen

Associate Professor

Andrea Fried

Senior Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Docent

Deputy Dean, Associate Professor

Senior Associate Professor

Svjetlana Pantic Dragisic

Professor, Head of Unit

Torbjörn Tagesson

Professor, Head of Unit

Aku Valtakoski

Senior Associate Professor

Lars Witell

Professor, Head of Unit

Olga Yttermyr

Associate Professor

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

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

Education

Single-subject courses

Business Administration 1, 30 credits

Business Administration 2, 30 credits

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

Business and Economics Programme, 240 credits
MSc Business Administration – Strategy and Management in International Organisations, 120 credits
Business and Economics Programme - International - English, 240 credits
Business and Economics Programme - International - French, 240 credits
Business and Economics Programme - International - German, 240 credits
Business and Economics Programme - International - Spanish, 240 credits

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.

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Corporate digital responsibility - Managing cyberattacks in Swedish companies (CODIRES)

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Agtech Sweden

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Center for Advanced Research in Emergency Response - CARER

A collaboration between LiU and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency which aims to consolidate and strengthen LiU's research in risk, response and rescue area.

Publications

2024

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)

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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 F 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)

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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)

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Lars Olbert (2024) Financial analysts use of industry-specific stock valuation models

Mariana S. Gustafsson, Aliaksei Kazlou, Elin Wihlborg (2024) Automation in Social Care: A Case Study of Organizational Challenges and Skills Dynamics in Three Swedish Municipalities ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT, EGOV 2024, p. 218-233 (Conference paper)

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Mikael Ottosson, Johnny Danell (2024) Categorization, identification, and analysis of barriers to market growth in biogas solutions - The case of Sweden Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 476, Article 143759 (Article in journal)

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Katrin Katana, Besma Glaa, Murat Mirata (2024) Facilitator roles for knowledge sharing in industrial symbiosis networks during emergence Business Strategy and the Environment (Article in journal)

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