Industrial Management (INDEK)

The Division of Industrial Management is part of the Department of Management and Engineering. The division is one of the largest in Sweden regarding research, education and contract education, specializing in business development, management control and industrial marketing.

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Research

The division of Industrial Management broadly conducts research on B2B firms, their business models, their strategies, and how they can create and capture value. The creation and capture of value, and being able to develop business models and strategies that can enable the creation of value, is key in all industries and for all actors. With increased competition on many arenas, with new opportunities through digitalization and servitization, and as sustainability is becoming a pivotal aspect in all business, being able to rethink and renew business models, and to find new ways to create value, is at the very heart of management today.

Our research is primarily carried out in close cooperation with industry and we have extensive experience in working with various firms in this process. Key concepts for us are business models, value creation, sustainability, market strategies, servitization, value chains and growth. The research activities in our division are organized in three areas, or centers, – Center for Business Model Innovation, Center for Applied research in SMEs, and Digitisation and management - and in six different research tracks.

For questions please contact the research director Professor Daniel Kindström or anyone of the senior researchers in our division.

Researchers

The division has a wide range of researchers and doctoral students involved in our ongoing projects. Currently we are 6 Professors, 7 Assistant Professors and 10 doctoral candidates as well as research assistants, teaching faculty, and administration. We also work closely together with both national and international scholars, as well as various firms, in our projects.


Research areas

Recent publications

2024

Mojtaba Hosseini, Staffan Brege, Tomas Nord (2024) When market leads innovation: The interplay of internationalisation, innovation and productivity among Swedish wood manufacturing SMEs The World Economy (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Suvi Nenonen, Kaj Storbacka, Alexey Sklyar, Hans Kjellberg (2024) Identifying effective market-shaping strategies: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 123, p. 12-30 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Brenda Nansubuga, Christian Kowalkowski (2024) Moving to subscriptions: service growth through business model innovation in consumer and business markets Journal of Service Management, Vol. 35, p. 185-215 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Lisa Lundin, Daniel Kindström (2024) Managing digitalized touchpoints in B2B customer journeys Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 121, p. 88-99 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sarah Semnani Kenlind, Emelie Havemo (2024) A Typology of Business Model Reconfiguration in Incumbent Firms Journal of Business Models, Vol. 12, p. 43-59 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Education

We provide courses and Degree Project, thesis work within the three undergraduate subjects:

  • Industrial Management
  • Industrial Marketing
  • Economic Information Systems.

These are primarily aimed at the engineering programs, mainly the programme in Industrial Engineering and Management. 

Commissioned education

We have also developed commissioned education with a focus on business development, financial management and business marketing. We can also design a course to meet your organizations' specific needs. Do not hesitate to contact us!

Contact

Contacts for Degree Projects in Economic Information Systems, Industrial Economics and Industrial Marketing

Adress

Visiting address

Division of Industrial Management

Hans Meijers väg
A Building, entrance 13-19, Campus Valla

Postal Address

Linköping University
Department of Management and Engineering
Division of Industrial Management
Linköping University
581 83 Linköping
Sweden

Organisation