Business Administration (FEK)

Management Control, Organisation and Innovation

Our research explores issues of organisation and management control around knowledge, projects and innovation as well as organisational dynamics and entrepreneurship.

Accounting, Auditing and Finance

Our research group investigates the factors that affect accounting choice and auditing quality within both private and public sectors. In addition, we study the relationships between private equity firms and entrepreneurial firms.

Marketing and Innovation

In our research into marketing and innovation we work with questions about how organisations and customers can together create value.

Organizational Dynamics

Investigating how new organizations and industries are created and evolve, how labor market dynamics affect workforce segregation across organizations, and computational approaches to group and organizational decision-making.

Positive and negative effects of standards

The research program takes up an important aspect of modern organizations: the appearance of standards as an expression of global form of rule setting and regulation

Creating strength and care through communicating vulnerable emotions

Vulnerable feelings such as feeling being excluded or as an outsider can be transformed into strength for change and care for others when organizations provide an open and supportive climate.

Dreaming of a sustainable Christmas?

How can celebrating Christmas become more climate friendly? Here are some tips from Hugo Guyader, researcher in business administration and sustainable consumption, and from the student club Navitas.

Climate-smart farming robot solves problems

An invention by researcher Per Frankelius and farmers in the region of Sörmland could be an important step in the electrification of agriculture. It also solves other problems such as hard-packed soil, emissions and poorer harvests.

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New book on standards and why companies deviate from them

The book “Understanding Deviance in a World of Standards” was released during a research seminar held at Department of Management and Engineering online. The book investigates standards as a global phenomenon that affects most industries and sectors.

OECD countries’ politicians follow each other

The more democratic a country is, the greater the probability that its politicians decide in the same way as in neighbouring countries, without further analysis, according to a study on decision-making during the beginning of the Corona crisis.

Agriculture – a climate villain? Maybe not!

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims that agriculture is one of the main sources of greenhouse gases, and is considered as a climate villain. This conclusion is based on a paradigm that can be questioned, writes Per Frankelius.

First Swedish textbook on Marketing & Sustainability

Two researchers and teachers at Linköping University have written the first Swedish textbook that links marketing and sustainability. The book criticises to a certain extent the course literature that currently dominates education in marketing.

Teacher or guardian – the two faces of auditors

Teacher and counsellor. Or examiner and market guardian? A thesis recently presented at Linköping University shows that auditors can play very different roles, depending on their work situation and whom they identify with.

New thesis examines auditing costs

The cost of auditing differs significantly between companies, and depends on the form of ownership and the company’s bottom line. When annual reports are compiled, individuals can have a large influence on reports and contents.

Important differencies in industry's energy work

Investing in energy conservation can give significant additional benefits to a company, sometimes as significant as the energy saving itself. At the same time, the work companies carry out to reduce energyconsumption differ greatly.

Sustainable markets must be created and defended

Creating sustainable markets poses particular obstacles: a sustainable market must be continuously shaped and reshaped. This is the conclusion of three LiU researchers in business administration, who have used the Swedish biogas market as a case.

New research project to examine the controller

The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded SEK 4.6 million for a research project to examine the role of the controller in the transition to sustainable energy. The project will be based at Business Administration at LiU.

How to cope with rejections

“No interest to anyone” Nearly all researchers have articles rejected, but the decision can be formulated in different ways. Lars Witell has written an article about rejections, where he examines the issue from three points of view.

A tireless voice

LiU researcher Per Frankelius doesn’t hold back from participating in debates. With his broad expertise in business administration and innovation, he is active in several important societal issues, not least within healthcare and agriculture.

Changes in policy attracted foreign entreprenuers to Sweden

Changes to the Swedish immigration policy led to greater numbers of foreign entrepreneurs coming to Sweden after 2008. Differences in income between Swedish and foreign entrepreneurs also fell during several years. All conclusions of a new thesis.

Mobility and social skills critical for consultants

Technical expertise is not sufficient if consulting firms are to be successful: social skills and mobility between workplaces are also important. This is the conclusion of a new doctoral thesis from Linköping University.

Sustainable food production and the art of expanding the ecosystem

Global food needs are increasing. In the short term, agriculture requires better conditions. In the long term, we must transform how business is done for a sustainable society – with green services, according to LiU researchers in business marketing.

A virtual team for post-disaster communication

Create a team with nine students from LiU and Stanford, from different programmes of education and four different countries. Ask them to solve a task from Saab and give them nine months to do it. What’s the result? The DaMD course.

Social businesses better than traditional development aid

Social businesses can play an important role in reducing poverty and stimulating progress in developing economies. Indeed – such businesses often achieve better results than traditional aid. They face, however, huge challenges.