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

Education

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

Business and Economics Programme, 240 credits
MSc Business Administration – Strategy and Management in International Organisations, 120 credits
Business and Economics Programme - International - English, 240 credits
Business and Economics Programme - International - French, 240 credits
Business and Economics Programme - International - German, 240 credits
Business and Economics Programme - International - Spanish, 240 credits

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 7...

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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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.

Agtech is a research project driven by Linköping University

Agtech 2030

Agtech 2030 aims to build up an innovation environment and activate a mobilisation aiming for tomorrow's agriculture.

Forskning inom respons- och räddningssystem

Center for Advanced Research in Emergency Response (CARER)

A collaboration between LiU and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency which aims to consolidate and strengthen LiU's research in risk, response and rescue area.

Publications

2024

Pernilla Broberg, Torbjörn Tagesson (2024) The adoption of professional audit standards in the public sector: The role of the audit profession and other actors Auditing Transformation: Regulation, Digitalisation and Sustainability, p. 90-110

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2023

Svjetlana Pantic-Dragisic, Frida Pemer (2023) Working Betwixt And Between: Virtual Teamwork In Management Consulting

Svjetlana Pantic-Dragisic, Frida Pemer (2023) Professional Identity Formation: Exploring the Effects of Covid-19 on Management Consulting Firms Professional Identity Formation: Exploring the Effects of Covid-19 on Management Consulting Firms

Maria Wolmesjö, Elisabeth Sundin, Magdalena Elmersjö (2023) Digitalisering: från lösning till krav Välfärdens paradoxer, spänningar och dilemman, p. 17-31

Magdalena Elmersjö, Elisabeth Sundin (2023) Det nya är det gamla normala: hemtjänst utifrån målgruppens behov Välfärdens paradoxer, spänningar och dilemman, p. 131-143

Arne Jönsson, Subhomoy Bandyopadhyay, Svjetlana Pantic-Dragisic, Andrea Fried (2023) Analyses of information security standards on data crawled from company web sites using SweClarin resources CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings: 2023

Jonas Söderlund (2023) Seven Insights Into Becoming an Engaged Project Scholar Project Management Journal

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Tobias Otterbring, Jasenko Flodin Arsenovic, Peter Samuelsson, Suresh Malodia, Amandeep Dhir (2023) Going the Extra Mile, Now or After a While: The Impact of Employee Proactivity in Retail Service Encounters on Customers Shopping Responses British Journal of Management

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Anna-Liisa Kaasila-Pakanen, Pauliina Jaaskelainen, Grace Gao, Emmanouela Mandalaki, Ling Eleanor Zhang, Katja Einola, Janet Johansson, Alison Pullen (2023) Writing touch, writing (epistemic) vulnerability Gender, Work and Organization

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Per Carlborg, Hannah Snyder, Lars Witell (2023) How sustainable is the sharing business model? Toward a conceptual framework R&D Management

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News

Research at IEI holds a high standard

Stanford University has recently released an updated list of the top two percent most cited researchers globally, and it is gratifying to note that once again, several distinguished researchers from IEI are represented on the list.

Jonas Söderlund receives the prestigious PMI Research Achievement Award

Jonas Söderlund, a distinguished scholar and professor at Linköping University, has been awarded the prestigious PMI Research Achievement Award. This esteemed award recognises his significant contributions to the field of project management.

Buster is living his dream in Vienna

An education in Business and Economics with an international focus i the German language and a year in Vienna got Buster Löfgren on the perfect path in life.