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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Nobel Prize-winning technology dries grain 鈥� without heat

Nobel Prize-winning technology is now applied in Swedish agriculture. At Hasta Gård, grain is dried without heat using far less energy. The research is part of an innovation project involving Agtech Sweden at LiU.

Jonas Rohdin, Steve Lien, Martin Vikblad och Chipo Ziyambe

LiU and Stanford develop drone technology for forest fire monitoring

Students from 福利姬 and Stanford have developed a drone that can help firefighters combat forest fires in a safer and smarter way.

Johanna Sylvander, Nandita Mishra and Josefine Rasmussen, is standing outside, looking into the camera

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 福利姬 explores the impact of these rules and the shift from voluntary to mandatory sustainability reporting.

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鈥檚 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

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

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.

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Agtech Sweden

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

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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

2025

Jonas Söderlund, Giorgio Locatelli, Joana Geraldi (2025) Project Management Journal, Vol. 56, p. 547-556 (Article in journal)

Pernilla Broberg (2025)

Lars Witell, Hannah Snyder, Allard C. R. van Riel, Mohamed Zaki (2025) Journal of Service Management (Article in journal)

Joston Gary, Jiang Lu, Yan Feng, Zihan Wang, Yang Gu, Soo-Cheng Chuah, Simão Sil, António Carrizo Moreira (2025) Journal of Marketing Analytics (Article in journal)

Jiang Lu, Soo-Cheng Chuah, Dong-Mei Xia, Joston Gary (2025) Economies, Vol. 13, p. 261-261 (Article in journal)

Joston Gary (2025) Journal of Marketing Analytics (Article in journal)

Eva Lövbrand, Cecilia Enberg, Veronica Brodén Gyberg (2025) Environmental Policy and Governance, Article eet.70019 (Article in journal)

Simon Billinger, Rickard Björnemalm (2025) Scandinavian Economic History Review (Article in journal)

Valeriia Lastovetskaia, Jasenko Flodin Arsenovic, Jelena Kurilova, Lars Witell (2025) SPANISH JOURNAL OF MARKETING-ESIC (Article in journal)

Lavagnon A. Ika, Jonas Söderlund, Jeffrey K. Pinto (2025) Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 41, Article 101403 (Article in journal)

Contact us

Head of Division

Research Leader

Director of Studies

Head for the unit for Marketing

Head of the unit for Strategy and Organization

jonas.soderlund@liu.se

Head of the unit for Accounting, Auditing and Finance

General Information and Contact for Students

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Study Advisers

Staff

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