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

News  

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LiU and Stanford develop drone technology for forest fire monitoring

Students from Linköping University and Stanford have developed a drone that can help firefighters combat forest fires in a safer and smarter way.

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Companies affected by new legislation on sustainability reporting

Starting in 2024, companies must take sustainability seriously under the new CSRD regulations. A research project at Linköping University explores the impact of these rules and the shift from voluntary to mandatory sustainability reporting.

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New project aims to increase understanding of AI's value

AI is reshaping the retail industry, yet few companies know how to fully leverage this technology. A new research project aims to help businesses understand and harness AI’s full potential to create long-term business value.

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...

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

2025

Simon Billinger, Rickard Björnemalm (2025) Managing to compete: the Swedish state-owned banks and competition, 1960-1985 Scandinavian Economic History Review (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Valeriia Lastovetskaia, Jasenko Flodin Arsenovic, Jelena Kurilova, Lars Witell (2025) Understanding consumer perspectives on remanufactured products: an integrative literature review and research agenda SPANISH JOURNAL OF MARKETING-ESIC (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Lavagnon A. Ika, Jonas Söderlund, Jeffrey K. Pinto (2025) It's time to take time seriously in the theory of temporary organizations Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 41, Article 101403 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Timur Uman, Pernilla Broberg, Helene Tjarnemo, Lisa Kallstrom, Jennifer Emsfors (2025) Images of the accounting profession and its development: the depiction of females and males in contextual domains Accounting Forum (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Torbjörn Tagesson (2025) Det sakkunniga biträdets yttrande: - vad föranleder ett modifierat yttrande?
Jonas Söderlund, Iben Sandal Stjerne, Vedran Zerjav (2025) An identity work theory of temporary organizations: On tensions and temporalities Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 41, Article 101404 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Ermal Hetemi, Sofia Pemsel, Jonas Söderlund, Anna Jerbrant (2025) Projecting for sustainability transitions: Contrasting two types of project-oriented agency International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 43, Article 102721 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
K. Hedvall, O. Benedettini, J. H. Bluemel, Jasenko Flodin Arsenovic, P. Kristensson (2025) B2B manufacturers in pursuit of Product-as-a-Service: Motivations, barriers, and approaches Journal of Business Research, Vol. 199, Article 115567 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Heiko Gebauer, Besma Glaa, Lars Witell, Helen Perks (2025) Key adjustments to service offerings to accommodate product innovations: The Case of electric vehicles Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 128, p. 71-87 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
JanErik Odhe, Pritam Padhi, Lars Witell (2025) Strategies for service growth Service innovation and management: digitalization, service infusion and customer experience, p. 45-58 (Chapter in book)

Contact us

General Information and Contact for Students

Study Advisers

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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

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