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 of Business Administration is a large and dynamic workplace. We are the largest division within the Department of Management and Engineering, both in terms of staff numbers and the number ofcourses and programmes offered at undergraduate level. In addition, we have substantial commitments in research, doctoral education, and external engagement.

It is important for Business Administration to maintain a strong focus on both research and teaching. The interaction between research and undergraduate education creates many added benefits for our lecturers and researchers, as well as for the students we meet every day. We ensure that our undergraduate provision incorporates a high degree of up-to-date research findings, while our staff continuously update and develop their pedagogical methods and the content of their modules. Many of the research projects conducted within the division are carried out in collaboration with companies and organisations, which strengthens the links between our staff and the wider community.

News  

SEK23 million for research in humanities and the social sciences

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond grants over SEK 23 million to research projects in the humanities and social sciences at Linköping University. These include the significance of names, the consequences of uranium mining, political polarisation, and robots.

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LiU in collaboration with NASA

A collaboration between Linköping University and NASA has led to a new three-day workshop about managing the unexpected. The aim is to provide knowledge, and some experience, of decision-making in tough situations.

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Nobel Prize-winning technology dries grain – without heat

Nobel Prize-winning technology is now applied in Swedish agriculture. At Hasta Gård, grain is dried without heat using far less energy. The research is part of an innovation project involving Agtech Sweden at LiU.

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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.

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The Controller - an unexplored actor in the transition towards sustainable energy systems

The controller plays a key role in the Swedish energy-intensive industry towards sustainability. This study will be conducted through a qualitative multiple case study in the Swedish energy-intensive industry.

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

The project wants to understand the social construction and organisation of digital responsibility of digitally active companies.

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Interplay between sustainability accounting and management accounting practices

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is a new EU regulation that mandates companies to report more comprehensively on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.

Publications

2025

Lars Witell, Poja shams, Amie Gustafsson, Joanna Pilawa, Aku Valtakoski (2025) Kundupplevelse i Förändring: digitalisering, robotar och social närvaro i kundresan
Erik Lakomaa, Rasmus Nykvist (2025) Monopolists for Competition? Incumbent Action by Telecom Operators and Financial Exchanges 1980-1990 Business History (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Erika Maria Rocha Leite, Mirna Albuquerque Frota, Thiago Medeiros da Costa Daniele, Maraysa Costa Vieira Cardoso, Daniel Garcia Mayor (2025) The contribution of spirituality to university students' meaning in life JOURNAL OF SPIRITUALITY IN MENTAL HEALTH (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Marcus Grattan, Andrea Fried, Arne Jönsson (2025) Challenges of Analysing Speech Acts in Organisational Communication
Joanna Pilawa (2025) Fables for Robots: Service Innovativeness and AI
Jonas Söderlund, Giorgio Locatelli, Joana Geraldi (2025) Excellent and Respectful Reviewing: Improving the Field of Project Studies and the Quality of Our Research Project Management Journal, Vol. 56, p. 547-556 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Joakim Engström, Peter Öhman, Torbjörn Tagesson (2025) Scrutinizing the Scrutiny: How Do Professional Auditors Approach Digital Ventures in Municipal Value for Money Audits? Financial Accountability and Management (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Pernilla Broberg (2025) Valets kostnader: En studie baserad på nio kommuners kostnader för det allmänna valet 2022 och valet till EU-parlamentet 2024
Lars Witell, Hannah Snyder, Allard C. R. van Riel, Mohamed Zaki (2025) AI as a change agent in an aging society: toward the sustainable behavior of service organizations and customers Journal of Service Management (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Joston Gary, Jiang Lu, Yan Feng, Zihan Wang, Yang Gu, Soo-Cheng Chuah, Simão Sil, António Carrizo Moreira (2025) The subtle power of nudging: consumer choice in ethical and sustainable retailing Journal of Marketing Analytics (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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

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