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

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
Jiang Lu, Soo-Cheng Chuah, Dong-Mei Xia, Joston Gary (2025) The Development of the Modern Logistics Industry and Its Role in Promoting Regional Economic Growth in China's Underdeveloped Northwest, Driven by the Digital Economy Economies, Vol. 13, p. 261-261 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Joston Gary (2025) Information push strategies in e-commerce:emotional and cognitive mechanisms shaping purchase decisions: multi-method approaches Journal of Marketing Analytics (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Eva Lövbrand, Cecilia Enberg, Veronica Brodén Gyberg (2025) The Will to Decarbonize: Problematizing European Just Transition Governance Environmental Policy and Governance, Article eet.70019 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
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

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

Organisation