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Panel 7 – ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (LUSEM)
3.8 Gender and equal opportunity issues
The panel has not given any specific comments. (Information added by the
RQ08 Project Office.)
3.9 Overall assessment
Research
Excellent
Collaboration Excellent
Research/teaching Inapplicable
Future plans Excellent
Overall assessment Excellent
This is a research unit of very high quality, integrating and promoting
state of the art research in its field. Its research program is extremely well
conceived, and the combination of generous funding and intellectual
leadership that are clearly in evidence bode well for the future.
4. Department of Business Administration
4.1 Unit Description
The Department of Business Administration covers the classical functional
areas within the field: corporate finance, financial accounting and management
control, marketing, organization, entrepreneurship and strategic
management. Maintaining activities within all these areas is a requirement
in order to be able to cover all aspects of teaching business administration;
in terms of research, it is clear that such a diversity of topics raises special
research leadership challenges. The department tries to balance the need for
breadth with the need to focus research on certain areas. In its self-evaluation,
four research focus areas are mentioned as especially successful: Lund
International Food Studies (a group mainly related to marketing topics),
the KLIO group (knowledge, leadership and identity in organizations) and
the corporate finance and governance research groups. But many other,
smaller activities seem to be ongoing. Research in business administration
seems to be mostly organized in the Lund Institute of Economic Research
(LRI), which list many other, mostly smaller research areas.
The department consists of (figures refer to full time equivalents in 2007)
7 professors, 27 senior lectures, 24 doctoral students and 26 other staff.
While this makes for a sizeable department, it is important to remember
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