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Panel 7 – ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (LUSEM)
been fairly productive. There are two doctoral dissertations, a number
of books and articles. The productivity seems to be above average when
compared to corresponding units.
Relevance. The research seems to be well focused to business life. The
present research covers legal issues with respect to companies’ external
reporting, international tax law, regulation and tax of small and medium
enterprises, investor protection and securities law banking law accounting
and auditing law. They are all relevant questions and can contribute both
the needs of society and to the theoretical framework and understanding
of legal issues within the fields of law, business administration and other
social science disciplines.
Vitality and Organizational Capacity. The mean age of the permanent
staff is a little over 50. The advantage of this is that they have a long
experience and a good contact network. Some of the teachers are close to
retirement, which will give the unit the possibility to do some reallocation
of resources or make some refocusing of research activities. Maybe
the department should consider concentrating to only some of the legal
fields that are now included in its portfolio.
5.4 Collaboration
Collaboration with the scientific society seems to be very active both
in national and international level. The department is well connected
according to many indicators. Researchers are often invited lectures to
international conferences; they act as editors in journals and evaluators
in academic assignments. They have also many contacts to the practical
business life. Collaboration can be graded as very good or excellent.
5.5 Research activity and teaching
The interaction between research and teaching is good. Faculty members
are both teachers and active researchers. Research papers and text books
written by departments own academic staff are often used in courses.
5.6 Future plans
The panel has not given any specific comments. (Information added by the
RQ08 Project Office.)
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