Research in Business Administration at LiU

Business administration is a relatively new subject, the first professorship was established at Stockholm School of Economics in 1911. Business administration is today the largest single subject at Swedish universities in terms of admission places.

Central issues within business administration research relate to organizations' strategies and decisions, financing, management and accounting, as well as various forms of organization. Companies' and individuals' capacity for change and innovation, collection of resources and disposal of products and services are other key research fields. The common factor in these seemingly wide-spread issues is the organizational perspective.

The business administration research at Linköping University has a number of approaches including strategy and strategic change, financial management, entrepreneurship, public organization and working life, external accounting, non-profit organizations, leadership and human resource work, knowledge integration and innovation, project management and project organization, and international business. The Department of Business Administration is located at the IEI, Department of Management and Engineering. The department's research activities are led by five professors, two visiting professors and three associate professors.

Research

The research of Business Administration
 

Research Groups

Accounting for Intangible Assets and Resources

CARER - Center for advanced research in emergency response 

DEOFS - Diversity of Entrepreneurship and Organisational Forms in Services

EPOK - Enterprising by Projects and Organizational Knowledge

ESIK - Management Control in Industrial Contexts

HELIX - Managing Mobility for Learning, Health and Innovation

HRM in projects and project-intense firms

KITE - Knowledge Integration and Innovation in Transnational Enterprise

MEKA - Managing external knowledge acquisition

REMESO - Institute for research on migration, ethnicity and society 

SSF - Strategy and strategic change