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Panel 7 – ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (LUSEM)
The department covers a wide diverse range of topics in business administration.
For some of these, research groups that do research of top level
international quality have been formed. The unevenness in the production
can be related to the compromises between having to teach all topics
and concentrating research in a few areas.
5. Department of Business Law
5.1 Unit Description
Besides Business Administration, the Schools of Economics and Management
both in the Nordic countries and elsewhere, consist usually of subjects
that are closely connected to the research of business administration and
business life. Business Law is one of those subjects which is essential as
part of a whole. It is an absolute prerequisite in teaching economics students,
and in order to do that, it is essential that in the same institution there is
also research which focuses to problems of economics and business law.
The Department of Business Law has long traditions in Lund. Many
of its researchers are well known in the Nordic countries and some also
internationally. The department has four professors and four senior lecturers.
In addition to that there are six full time doctoral students. As such
the department is probably a little bit larger than the average business law
department in the Schools of Economics in the Nordic region.
Research primarily focuses on economic questions with respect to the
company, industry and the society. The purpose is to contribute to the
theoretical framework and understanding of legal issues within the
fields of law, business administration and other social science disciplines.
Research projects in corporate and tax law take an economic and international
focus, sharing common ground with business administration,
economics and public finance.
5.2 Research infrastructure
Research is organized in a way which is typical to business law departments
or law schools, i.e. each researcher more or less focuses on his or
her own research interests. However that doesn´t prevent researchers to
take part in larger research programs with individuals focusing to same
topics in other institutions.
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