Business Administration (FEK)

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.

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.

The sharing economy needs both heart and wallet

Both the heart and the wallet must be involved if collaborative consumption is to work. Certain operations have a more non-profit character, others are more commercial, and both types are equally important. This is the conclusion of a new thesis.

Agriculture: a guarantor for peace and freedom

Society must reconsider the role of agriculture. Major investment is required in innovation, not only to feed the world’s increasing population, but also to avoid more wars and crises, claims LiU researcher Per Frankelius in The Lancet.

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

Vinnova to support agricultural technology

The objective of Agtech 2030 is to make eastern Götaland a world-leader in agricultural technology. The programme is selected by Vinnova as a Vinnväxt programme. It has a total budget of nearly SEK 200 million, of which SEK 70 million from Vinnova.

Farmers unite to make biogas profitable

Eleven farmers around the town of Alvesta in Småland agreed in 2014 to build a joint biogas facility. The result is a profitable facility, 4,500 kg of biogas every day, and fertiliser with a nutrient content that is 10% higher for the fields.

A biogas bus takes a tour

More than 30 researchers and representatives for companies involved in the Biogas Research Center, BRC, spent three days this summer touring southern Sweden to exchange experiences with companies and decision-makers.

Faster help in future crises

What are the accidents and emergencies we can expect in the future? Can others than the rescue services carry out rescue operations? These are some of the questions that the five-year research project “Framtidens skadeplats” is to answer.

Stanford inspires in business design

Over the spring, Ronaldo’s Stone Oven Bakery in Linköping got help from master’s students in Business Management to develop their company. The concept has its basis in ideas from Stanford University.

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