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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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.

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New world record in Swedish Agriculture

On July 2, a new world record attempt was started at Bro Godås farm in Säffle, by the team from Kverneland Group Sweden. How many bales can be produced during 24 hours of continuous operation?

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

Joana Geraldi, Giorgio Locatelli, Jonas Söderlund (2025) Author, Reviewer, Editor: A Generative Conversation Project Management Journal, Vol. 56, p. 163-172 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Neva Bojovic, Hugo Guyader, Fanny Salignac, Frederic Ponsignon (2025) Valuing Waste or Wasting Value: Tensions in Justifications of Worth in Circular Innovation Ecosystem Around Waste Valorization Organization & environment (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Janet Johansson, Annette Risberg, Malin Kvitvær (2025) Toward full inclusion: Understanding individual experiences as epistemic resources in sameness-difference dilemmas Management Learning (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Brenda Nansubuga, Christian Kowalkowski, Hugo Guyader (2025) Service experience in the access economy: managing experiences in mobility services Handbook of Service Experience, p. 362-378 (Chapter in book) Continue to DOI
Alexander Flaig, Hugo Guyader, Mikael Ottosson (2025) Design-Oriented stakeholder engagement in service ecosystems Journal of Business Research, Vol. 191, Article 115255 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Janet R. McColl-Kennedy, Lars Witell, Pennie Frow, Lilliemay Cheung, Adrian Payne, Rahul Govind (2025) Patient-centered care in practice: hospital and online primary care settings Journal of Services Marketing, Vol. 39, p. 15-31 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Janet Johansson, Grace Gao, Ingela Sölvell, Caroline Wigren‐Kristoferson (2024) Exploring caring collaborations in academia through feminist reflexive dialogues Gender, Work and Organization, Vol. 31, p. 2241-2263 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Robert Demir, Rasmus Nykvist, Alexander Gorgijevski, Duncan Angwin (2024) Harnessing Disruption: Subsidiary Issue-selling in the Green Technology Era Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) 2024 (Conference paper)
Leon M. Adler, Martin Ebel, Dipti Rathi, Heiko Gebauer (2024) Design Principles for Product-Service-Software-System Innovation for Healthcare Manufacturers PROCEEDINGS OF THE 57TH ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, p. 997-1006 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Pia A. Albinsson, Hugo Guyader, Mikael Ottosson, Anders Parment (2024) Marketing and Sustainability: Contradiction or the Path to Profitable Businesses and Sustainable Societies

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