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Panel 7 – ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (LUSEM)
4.5 Research activity and teaching
The heavy teaching load at this unit seems to severely limit the time that
can be allocated for research.
4.6 Future plans
The panel has not given any specific comments. (Information added by the
RQ08 Project Office.)
4.7 Future potential and possibilities
The department has some high class research groups, but also suffers
from the fragmentation that to some extent is unavoidable when one
department has to cover all of business administration with a restricted
staff. The number of professors seems extremely small with respect to
the number of different areas within business administration (6) to be
covered, and can partly hamper the development of stronger research
units. If the whole department, and not only some research groups, is to
become a top player in research, it will be crucial to concentrate research
even more than now on a few focus areas, and / or increase the number
of research faculty / find means of freeing time of the staff involved for
research activities. A specific question is the location of Finance, which
now is both within Business Administration and Economics, a division
which may have a negative effect on the development of that area to an
even stronger one within LUSEM.
4.8 Gender and equal opportunity issues
The panel has not given any specific comments. (Information added by the
RQ08 Project Office.)
4.9 Overall assessment
Research
Very good
Collaboration Excellent
Research/teaching Good
Future plans
Good
Overall assessment Very good
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