Business and IT

This research area integrates business administration and IT based on disciplines such as accounting, computer science, entrepreneurship, informatics, management, and marketing. Successful business and service innovation requires socio-technical and socio-cultural solutions that span the boundaries of knowledge domains. The school has a long tradition of close cooperation with organizations and institutes in the private as well as public sector.

Research in business administration encompasses accounting, entrepreneurship, marketing, and management. Social and environmental dimensions of organizations are studied in accounting. Entrepreneurship involves activities transforming business ideas into practice. In marketing consumer behavior, retailing, services, design, and the construction of markets also including networks are studied. In management leadership and organization of work are characterized by producer- as well as consumer perspectives. They co-exist in a variety of markets, traditional, digital, in a network of interactions and interrelations. Customer orientation is a prerequisite for satisfied customers and successful business processes. A societal perspective is considered crucial in that the research seeks to address ecological, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability.

IT research comprises both informatics and computer science. Informatics conveys the idea that IT systems require both the design of a technology component and action that embeds the system in the conditions of use. Informatics is expected to advance involved actors’ knowledge of how the mutual shaping of IT and organization may resolve actual business problems. Design of innovative IT systems and services capable of addressing real world problems requires that organizational as well as technical dimensions are carefully considered. The school’s computer science research has a particular focus on development and assessment of algorithms for advanced information management.

Subjects

Computer Science, Computer Science, Informatics

Research projects

Adaption and optimization of lock-free data structures The project has as its main goal to improve parallelism and the corresponding toolkit available for software developers within the Microsoft .NET framework.
A study of Local Care Collaboration Södra Älvsborg Local Care Collaboration Södra Älvsborg is a management structure at political and administrative level to promote collaboration at the operational level between municipalities and the county. Local Care Collaboration Södra Älvsborg is an effort to deal with boundary problems between different principals and their operational activities, which primarily affect the interaction between the municipality and the county within each area of local care collaboration.
Customer Behavior Analysis
Efficient IT Service Management Recent studies show that 80% of the IT-related work consists of IT-Service Management. IT Service Management (ITSM) is costly, and plays a critical role in supporting and satisfying business requirements. However, a challenge is that this important service sector is considered as inefficient by the customers. Both academia and industry need a better knowledge of IT serve management work practice, and how it can be made more efficient and effective.
e-Me e-Me is a research project that aims to create a personal electronic assistant that university, businesses and governments need to contact if they want you anything. E-Me can take care of all your e-mail accounts, manage administration, manage calendars, communicate with your mobile phone, looking for interesting offers, and more.
Humans, shirts and numbers - meeting between sellers and buyers
IFRS in practice The purpose of the research is to study the use of IFRS-standards in practice.
Innovation for sustainable everyday traveling Innovation for sustainable everyday traveling is a four-year project aiming at developing practical and theoretical knowledge about how digital information infrastructure and associated services can contribute to the expansion of the share of public transport of the total passenger transport system.
Recycling of clothes – development of knowledge and solutions for sustainable retailing The purpose of the study is to develop knowledge and solutions in order to reduce textile clothes waste.
Sales Forecasting Using Data Mining This project will evaluate the use of data mining for sales forecasting. Researchers will apply new technology to industry relevant problems, continuously comparing obtained performance to existing solutions. An important goal is to produce prototype software using the developed technology. Naturally, this software must be tailored for the complex forecasting situations targeted, so all problems will be addressed in collaboration with media analysts and statisticians at ICA Handlarna AB.

Finished research projects

ARENA
Broadband Access for Innovation and Regional Development (BIRD)
Center for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)
Center for Direct Marketing
Co-design platforms
E-CLIC (European Collaborative Innovation Centres for broadband media services)
Expanding the business developer's toolbox
Handelsplats Gällstad
Informatikprofessur
INFUSIS
ISSI
IT i innovativa affärsmodeller
KK-IT
Kundmöte 2015
Leadership for Sweden
NaturalHy
Posten Meddelande AB
Problem i samband med köp
PrototypeLab
PsYoungSupport
Research school for doctorial students in government - a pre study
Social sustainable consumption of groceries
Sparbanksprofessur
SUBSTANCE OVER FORM
Successful compentence supply - temporary manpower as a success factor
Swedish Institute for Trade and Services Innovation
The balanced service encounter
The meaning(s) of consumption
The phenomenon Ullared
The project organization as a policy tool in implementing welfare
Tre lokalt regionala Collaboratorium för informationsutbyte och samskapande i Sjuhäradsbygden
Troublesome travelers
Utveckling av medborgarkontakter i Marks Kommun